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Jun 11, 2018 · WEISMANN, AUGUST FRIEDRICH LEOPOLD. ( b. Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 17 January 1834; d. Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, 5 November 1914), zoology. Weismann’s most influential contribution to biological thought was his theory of the continuity of the germ plasm, an explanation of heredity and development. He maintained that the germ plasm, the ...
August Weismann was born in 1834 into what is commonly called the “Bildungsburgertum,” or educated middle class, in the free city of Frankfurt on the Main, some thirty kilometers up river from where the Main flows into the Rhine. The Main valley in itself was highly agricultural, and heavily cultivated according to contemporary accounts.
Jun 3, 2015 · August Weismann: Development, Heredity, and Evolution. Frederick B. Churchill. Harvard Univ. Press: 2015. 9780674736894 | ISBN: 978-0-6747-3689-4. A monumental study of an important but ...
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Jun 3, 2022 · So his model was a theoretical advance, extending the insight that reaction-diffusion equations can model transitions and “waves of advance” (e.g., in neurons) to morphogenesis (Berestycki 2013). Second, the model is strikingly abstract—“…a simplification and an idealization, and consequently a falsification” (Turing 1952: 37).
August Friedrich Leopold Weismann. 1834-1914. German Biologist. August Weismann, an early adherent to Darwin's theory of evolution, became famous for his studies on heredity.He denied that organisms could inherit acquired characteristics, touching off an important debate in the late nineteenth century between his own school, neo-Darwinism, and the opposing neo-Lamarckians who believed ...
Jun 9, 2015 · 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 the modern synthesis of genetics and evolution.
In 1892 August Weismann (1834-1914) presented to the schol-arly world a remarkable theory which in a single sweep explained the diverse biological phenomena of heredity, devel-opment, regeneration, sexual reproduction, mitotic division, and Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. Only after a seasoned career had Weismann arrived at this
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