August Weismann : : Development, Heredity, and Evolution / / Frederick B. Churchill.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Churchill, Frederick B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (770 p.) :; 16 color illustrations, 26 halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; I. Explorations into Natural History and Development --; 1. Growing Up and Early Research --; 2. The Age of Development --; 3. Becoming an Embryologist: Insect Development --; 4. Studies in Descent, Part I: 1863–1876 --; 5. Studies in Descent, Part II: 1873–1876 --; 6. Daphnia Research and the Ecology of Lakes --; 7. From Germ Layers to the Germ-Plasm: The Study of Hydromedusae, 1877–1883 --; 8. From Egg to Heredity: 1876–1885 --; 9. A Perspective on Heredity --; 10. Carl Nägeli and Inter- and Intragenerational Continuity --; 11. The Emergence of Nuclear Cytology --; II. An Architectonic View of Heredity --; 12. A New Perspective on Heredity: Continuity and Heredity --; 13. Transmission of Adaptations and Evolution: 1885–1890 --; 14. Polar Body Research: 1887–1891 --; 15. Protozoa and Amphimixis --; 16. A Model for Heredity: Das Keimplasma, 1892 --; 17. Controversies and Adjustments: 1893–1896 --; 18. Th e Germ-Plasm and the Diversity of Living Phenomena: 1890–1900 --; 19. Seasonal Dimorphism in Butterflies and Parthenogenesis of Drones --; 20. Adapting the Germ-Plasm: 1900–1914 --; 21. A Mechanical Model for Evolution --; Epilogue --; Appendix: Works by August Weismann --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674286832; 9783110665901
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674286832
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Frederick B. Churchill.

August Weismann’s 1892 theory that inheritance is transmitted through eggs and sperm provided the biological mechanism for natural selection. In this full-length biography, Frederick Churchill situates Weismann in the swirling intellectual currents of his day and shows how his work paved the way for the modern synthesis of genetics and evolution.