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Somatic variation and evolution

1983; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 9; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0094837300007326

1938-5331

Leo W. Buss,

Philosophy and History of Science

The most popular theoretical propositions are often those which spell the final doom to a notion that has already fallen into disrepute. This is as true today as it was when August Weismann (1892) published his seminal volume, Der Keimplasma , which far more than Cuvier's vituperative attacks, put the ideas of Lamarck to final rest.