Essays Upon Heredity, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2: and kindred biological problems
by Weismann
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Menlo Park, California, United States
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A key book from a fascinating moment in the history of the science of genetics. Weismann summerises and criticises the various current theories of inheritance - Darwin, Lamarck, Nagelli. Exposition of Weismann's germ plasm theory, somatic and germ cells, drawings of the stages of cell division showing what I think would be called chromosoms today - he calls them "loops". Diagrams of how these "loops" could be modified in inheritance. The 1866 work of Mendel was unknown at this time (1892) but repeated or rediscovered by de Vries later in the 1890's.
The two volumes are in very good condition. Pages of the second volume uncut.
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- Bookseller
- Kenneth Wilsher (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1020
- Title
- Essays Upon Heredity, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2
- Author
- Weismann
- Format/Binding
- Blue cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second edition of Vol. 1 as issued with 1st ed. Vol. 2
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Oxford
- Place of Publication
- England
- Date Published
- 1891-2
- Pages
- 226, 471
- Size
- 8" X 5"
- Weight
- 2.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Heredity, Genetics, Science,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science; Genetics; Evolution; Biology;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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