The Germ-Plasm: A Theory of Heredity

by August Weismann

Originally published in German in 1892 as Das Eine Theorie der Vererbung , this reprint is of the first English translation. As a key text in the debate over the inheritance of acquired characters, The Germ-Plasm was one of Weismann's most important contributions to the genetic thought that guided much of the scholarship in twentieth-century genetics and embryology.

Hardcover

First published February 1, 2003

About the author

German biologist August Friedrich Leopold Weismann asserted that the germplasm, a material substance, transmits hereditary traits and not acquired characters.

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