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August Weismann

Biology

#51

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Genetics

#22

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Evolutionary Biology

#29

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PhD Medicine University of Göttingen

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According to Wikipedia, August Friedrich Leopold Weismann FRS , HonFRSE, LLD 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.

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August Weismann's Published Works

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Das Keimplasma : eine Theorie der Vererbung (158)
The Evolution Theory (110)
The germ-plasm (67)
Die Entstehung der Sexualzellen bei den Hydromedusen : zugleich ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss des Baues und der Lebenserscheinungen dieser Gruppe (66)
The all-sufficiency of natural selection : a reply to Herbert Spencer (52)
Aufsätze über vererbung und verwandte biologische fragen (40)
Die Continuität des Keimplasma's als Grundlage einer Theorie der Vererbung (35)
Ueber die Dauer des Lebens; ein Vortrag. (33)
Essays upon heredity and kindred biological problems / By August Weismann. Authorized translation edited by Edward B. Poulton, Selmar Schönland, and Arthur E. Shipley. (29)
Amphimixis oder: die Vermischung der Individuen (26)
Die Bedeutung der sexuellen Fortpflanzung für die Selektions-Theorie / von Dr. August Weismann. (22)
Prof. Weismann's Theory of Heredity (1890) (21)
Vorträge über Deszendenztheorie (1914) (19)
Die entstehung der sexualzellen bei den hydromedusen : zugleich ein Betrag zur Kenntniss des Baues und der Lebenserscheinungen dieser Gruppe / von August Weismann. (18)
The effect of external influences upon development (15)
The evolution theory, Vol 1. (15)
Essays upon heredity and kindred biological problems. Authorised translation, edited by Edward B. Poulton, Selmar Schönland and Arthur E. Shipley. (14)
The origin of flowers. (14)
Die Bedeutung der sexuellen Fortpflanzung für die Selektions-Theorie (1887) (12)
Vorträge über Deszendenztheorie : gehalten an der Universität zu Freiburg im Breisgau (10)
Die Allmacht der Naturzüchtung : eine Erwiderung an Herbert Spencer (10)
The evolution theory, Vol 2. (9)
Thatsachen und Auslegungen in Bezug auf Regeneration (8)
Ueber die Vererbung : ein Vortrag (6)
Eine hydrobiologische Einleitung (6)
Über die Berechtigung der Darwin'schen Theorie : ein Akademischer Vortrag (6)
The germ-plasm; a theory of heredity, by August Weismann. Tr. by W. Newton Parker and Harriet Rönnfeldt. (5)
Äussere Einflüsse als Entwicklungsreize. Von August Weismann ... (5)
Die Entwicklung der Dipteren : ein Beitrag zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Insekten (5)
Vorträge über Descendenztheorie, gehalten au der Unversität zu Freiburg im Breisgau, von August Weismann. Mit 3 farbigen tafeln und 131 textfiguren. (4)
Studies in the theory of descent. By Dr. August Weismann. With notes and additions by the author. Translated and edited, with notes, by Raphael Meldola. With a prefatory notice by Charles Darwin ... (4)
Vorträge über Descendeztheorie, gehalten au der Unversität zu Freiburg im Breisgau, (4)
Die Selektionstheorie : eine Untersuchung (3)
Über Leben und Tod : eine biologische Untersuchung (3)
Zur Frage nach der Vererbung erworbener Eigenschaften (3)
Neue Versuche zum Saison-Dimorphismus der Schmetterlinge (3)
Über den Rückschritt in der Natur (3)
Lecture XXXII. Influence of isolation on the formation of species. (1)
On some peculiar organs of Eudendrium ramosum (1882) (1)
Thoughts upon the Musical Sense in Animals and Men. No. X. of "Essays upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems" (1)
Lecture XXVII. The biogenetic law. (1)
Äussere Einflüsse als Entwicklungsreize (1)
Lecture XXIX. The general significance of amphimixis (continued). (0)
Lecture XXII. Share of the parents in the building up of the offspring. (0)
Lecture XXVI. Germinal selection (continued). (0)
Organic partnerships or symbiosis. (0)
The germ-plasm theory (continued) [1]. (0)
Lecture XX. Regeneration. (0)
The process of fertilization. (0)
Protective adaptations in plants. (0)
Lecture XXXIII. Origin of the specific type. (0)
Reproduction by germ-cells. (0)
The germ-plasm theory. (0)
Lecture XXIII. Examination of the hypothesis of the transmissibility of functional modifications. (0)
On germinal selection as a source of definite variation, by August Weismann, tr. from the German by Thomas J. McCormack. (0)
Lecture XXX. In-breeding, parthenogenesis, asexual reproduction, and their consequences. (0)
Lecture XXVIII. The general significance of amphimixis. (0)
The instincts of animals. (0)
Lecture XXXVI. Spontaneous generation and evolution: Conclusion. (0)
Lecture XXIV. Objections to the thesis that functional modifications are not transmitted. (0)
Lecture XXXV. The origin and the extinction of species. (0)
Lecture XXXI. The influences of environment. (0)
The transformation of the Mexican axolotl into Amblystoma (0)
The Darwinian theory. (0)
The germ-plasm theory (continued) [2]. (0)
Lecture XXI. Regeneration (continued). (0)
Intra-selection or selection among tissues. (0)
The Darwinian theory (continued). (0)
The coloration of animals and its relation to the processes of selection. (0)
Lecture XXXIV. Origin of the specific type (continued). (0)
Fertilization in plants and unicellular organisms and its immediate significance. (0)
The Migration of Birds (1879) (0)
Reproduction in unicellular organisms. (0)
Lecture XXV. Germinal selection. (0)
Charles Darwin und sein Lebenswerk : Festrede, gehalten zu Freiburg i. Br. Am 12. Februar 1909 (0)

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