Essays upon heredity and kindred biological problems
By: by August Weismann ; authorized translation edited by Edward B. Poulton, Selmar Sch©œnland and Arthur E. Shipley
Contributors: Poulton, Edward Bagnall, Sir, 1856-1943; Sch©œnland, S. (Selmar), 1860-; Shipley, A. E. (Arthur Everett), Sir, 1861-1927; Knight, Bert Cyril James Gabriel, 1906-1981 former owner; University of London. Institute of Psychiatry Library; Great Britain. Local Government Board; Wellcome Library; King's College London
Series: Translations of foreign biological memoirs -- 4.
Publisher: at the Clarendon Press
Published: 1889
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 455
Subjects: Heredity; Genetics; Reproduction
Other titles: Biological memoirs - Weismann on heredity.
Notes: Spine title: "Biological memoirs - Weismann on heredity"

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This material has been provided by King ́s College London. The original may be consulted at King ́s College London.

King ́s College London.
Table of contents: title: Contents: 1. The duration of life, 1881 - 2. On heredity, 1883 - 3. Life and Death, 1883 - 4. The continuity of the germ-plasm as the foundation of a theory of heredity, 1885 - 5. The significance of sexual reproduction in the theory of natural selection, 1886 - 6. On the number of polar bodies and their significance in heredity, 1887 - 7. On the supposed botanical proofs of the transmission of acquired characters, 1888 - 8. The supposed transmission of mutilations, 1888.