- 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. The 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
August Weismann
Development, Heredity, and Evolution
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