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Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems
August Weismann and Edward Bagnall, Sir Poulton
Why do living things age and die, and what passes from parent to offspring? Weismann's influential essays tackle heredity and the duration of life across birds, mammals, and insects, laying groundwork for modern genetics. Rigorous and far-reaching. Trace the ideas that helped explain how traits are inherited and life is measured out.
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68 chapters
- 1ESSAYS UPON HEREDITY AND KINDRED BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS
- 2AUTHOR’S PREFACE.
- 3EDITORS’ PREFACE.
- 4CONTENTS.
- 5THE DURATION OF LIFE.
- 6PREFACE.
- 7I. THE DURATION OF LIFE.
- 8APPENDIX.
- 9Note 1. The Duration of Life among Birds.
- 10Note 2. The Duration of Life among Mammals.
- 11Note 3. The Duration of Life among Mature Insects.
- 12Note 4. The Duration of Life of the Lower Marine Animals.
- 13Note 5. The Duration of Life in Indigenous Terrestrial and Fresh-water Mollusca.
- 14Note 6. Unequal Length of Life in the two Sexes.
- 15Note 7. Bees.
- 16Note 8. Death of the Cells in higher Organisms.
- 17Note 9. Death by Sudden Shock.
- 18Note 10. Intermingling during the Fission of Unicellular Organisms[30].
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