August Weismann : : Development, Heredity, and Evolution / / Frederick B. Churchill.
August Weismann’s 1892 theory that inheritance is transmitted through eggs and sperm provided the biological mechanism for natural selection. In this full-length biography, Frederick Churchill situates Weismann in the swirling intellectual currents of his day and shows how his work paved the way for...
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Preface -- |t I. Explorations into Natural History and Development -- |t 1. Growing Up and Early Research -- |t 2. The Age of Development -- |t 3. Becoming an Embryologist: Insect Development -- |t 4. Studies in Descent, Part I: 1863–1876 -- |t 5. Studies in Descent, Part II: 1873–1876 -- |t 6. Daphnia Research and the Ecology of Lakes -- |t 7. From Germ Layers to the Germ-Plasm: The Study of Hydromedusae, 1877–1883 -- |t 8. From Egg to Heredity: 1876–1885 -- |t 9. A Perspective on Heredity -- |t 10. Carl Nägeli and Inter- and Intragenerational Continuity -- |t 11. The Emergence of Nuclear Cytology -- |t II. An Architectonic View of Heredity -- |t 12. A New Perspective on Heredity: Continuity and Heredity -- |t 13. Transmission of Adaptations and Evolution: 1885–1890 -- |t 14. Polar Body Research: 1887–1891 -- |t 15. Protozoa and Amphimixis -- |t 16. A Model for Heredity: Das Keimplasma, 1892 -- |t 17. Controversies and Adjustments: 1893–1896 -- |t 18. Th e Germ-Plasm and the Diversity of Living Phenomena: 1890–1900 -- |t 19. Seasonal Dimorphism in Butterflies and Parthenogenesis of Drones -- |t 20. Adapting the Germ-Plasm: 1900–1914 -- |t 21. A Mechanical Model for Evolution -- |t Epilogue -- |t Appendix: Works by August Weismann -- |t Notes -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t Index |
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