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In 1859 Darwins tantalizing new idea stirred up a great deal of activity and turmoil in the scientific world, to a large extent because the underlying biological mechanisms of evolution through natural selection had not yet been worked out. Weismanns achievement was to unite natural history, embryology, and cell Biology under the capacious dome of evolutionary theory. In his major work on the germ plasm (1892), which established the material basis of heredity in the germ cells, Weismann delivered a crushing blow to Lamarcks concept of the inheritance of acquired traits.In this deeply researched biography, Churchill explains the development of Weismanns pioneering work based on cytology and embryology and opens up an expanded history of Biology from 1859 to 1914. August Weismann is sure to become the definitive account of an extraordinary life and career.
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In 1859 Darwins tantalizing new idea stirred up a great deal of activity and turmoil in the scientific world, to a large extent because the underlying biological mechanisms of evolution through natural selection had not yet been worked out. Weismanns achievement was to unite natural history, embryology, and cell Biology under the capacious dome of evolutionary theory. In his major work on the germ plasm (1892), which established the material basis of heredity in the germ cells, Weismann delivered a crushing blow to Lamarcks concept of the inheritance of acquired traits.In this deeply researched biography, Churchill explains the development of Weismanns pioneering work based on cytology and embryology and opens up an expanded history of Biology from 1859 to 1914. August Weismann is sure to become the definitive account of an extraordinary life and career.
