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August Weismann

August Weismann

August Friedrich Leopold Weismann (Frankfurt am Main, 17 January 1834 – Freiburg, 5 November 1914) was a German evolutionary biologist.[1]

Weismann is much admired today. Ernst Mayr thought he was "one of the great biologists of all time", and ranked him "the second most notable evolutionary theorist of the 19th century", after Charles Darwin.[2]

  1. August Weismann at www.nndb.com
  2. Mayr, Ernst 1982. The growth of biological thought. Harvard. p698

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