by August Weismann · Antigonos Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783563301180
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«Ueber die Zahl der Richtungskörper und über ihre Bedeutung für die Vererbung» is the essay by August Weismann, published by Antigonos Verlag in paperback.
The essay addresses the number of polar bodies and their significance for heredity, a central question in nineteenth-century biological discussions. Weismann examines these structures of the egg and their possible role in the transmission of hereditary traits.
This edition is an unchanged reprint of the original 1887 edition. The volume has 90 pages, in paperback and with text in German.
For readers interested in the history of biology and in theories of heredity prior to modern genetics.
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August Friedrich Leopold Weismann was a German evolutionary biologist. Fellow German Ernst Mayr ranked him as the second most notable evolutionary theorist of the 19th century, after Charles Darwin. Weismann became the Director of the Zoological Institute and the first Professor of Zoology at Freiburg.
