Studies in the Theory of Descent (Volumes 1 and 2)

by August Weismann

EN·~16 hours·23 chapters

Chapters

23 total

Transcriber’s notes

0:17

STUDIES IN THE THEORY OF DESCENT.

0:40

PREFATORY NOTICE.

2:25

TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE.

10:50

PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION.

18:27

STUDIES IN THE THEORY OF DESCENT.

0:02

Part I.

0:00

57:09

II.

8:19

III.

15:25

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Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2015-01-02

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

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Subjects

Insects Heredity Zoology Butterflies Lepidoptera Insects -- Evolution Mechanism (Philosophy)QH QL

About the author

August Weismann

1834–1914

A pioneering German biologist, he helped reshape ideas about heredity by arguing that inherited traits are passed through reproductive cells rather than altered by life experience. His bold defense of evolution made him one of the key scientific voices between Darwin and modern genetics.

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