August Weismann - Some written work

Friedrich Leopold August Weismann (*January 17, 1834 in Frankfurt am Main; † November 5, 1914 in Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German Biologist. Ernst Mayr ranks him the second most notable evolutionary theorist of the 19th century, after Charles Darwin. Weismann advocated the germ plasm theory, stating that a multicellular organism consists of germ cells that pass on hereditary information, and somatic cells that perform body functions. The germ cells are not affected by anything the body learns or any ability it acquires duri ...

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• August Weismann - Life
• August Weismann - Youth and studies
• August Weismann - Professional life
• August Weismann - Contributions to evolutionary biology
• August Weismann - 1868-1881/82
• August Weismann - 1882-1895
• August Weismann - 1896-1910
• August Weismann - Some written work
• August Weismann - Literature

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At the beginning of Weismann's preoccupation with evolutionary theory is his grappling with Christian creationism as a possible alternative. In his work Über die Berechtigung der Darwin'schen Theorie (On the justification of the Darwinian theory) he compares creationism and evolutionary theory, concluding that many biological facts can be seamlessly accommodated within evolutionary ...

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August Weismann - Youth and studies. Weismann was born a son of high school teacher Johann (Jean) Konrad Weismann (1804-1880), a graduate of ancient languages and theology, and his wife Elise (1803-1850), née Lübbren, the daughter of the county councillor and mayor von Stade, on January 17, 1834 in Frankfurt am Main. He had a typical 19th century bourgeois education, receiving music lessons from the age of four, and drafting and painting lessons from Jakob Becker (1810-1872) at the Frankfurter Städelsche Insti ...

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August Weismann, August Weismann - Life, August Weismann - Youth and studies, August Weismann - Professional life, August Weismann - Contributions to evolutionary biology, August Weismann - 1868-1881/82, August Weismann - 1882-1895, August Weismann - 1896-1910, August Weismann - Some written work, August Weismann - Literature

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