Papers, 1910-1972.

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Papers, 1910-1972.

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These are copies of letters, news clippings, and articles, assembled by Hugo Iltis to document Kammerer's life as a geneticist. They deal mainly with the controversy over the inheritance of acquired characteristics, as typified by Kammerer's experiments with the midwife toad. There is correspondence with Hugo Iltis and between Iltis and Arthur Koestler.

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Hugo, Iltis, 1925- ,

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Iltis, Hugo, 1925- .

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Kammerer, Paul, 1880-1926

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Paul Kammerer was an Austrian geneticist. He studied adaptation and hereditary characteristics of amphibians. In 1909, he determined the genetic structure of the toad. From the description of Papers, 1910-1972. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 154298049 The Austrian biologist Paul Kammerer was an outspoken proponent of the theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics (Lamarckism) during the time in which Mendelian theory was bec...

Koestler, Arthur, 1905-1983

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