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The Inheritance of Acquired Characters by Jennings, H. S - 1926

by Jennings, H. S

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The Inheritance of Acquired Characters

by Jennings, H. S

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Name stamp of G. Judson Herrick at top. Reprinted from THE FORUM. A Magazine of Controversy, edited by Henry Goddard Leadh, Nov., 1926. 10 pp. Lightly toned. No back cover. A repudiation of eugenics. Library stamp front cover. . Good. Soft cover. 1926.
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  • Date Published 1926
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  • Keywords Genetics; Evolution
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Heredity, Variation and Evolution in Protozoa. I. The Fate of New Structural Characters in Paramecium, in Connection with the Problem of the Inheritance of Acquired Characters in Unicellular Organisms.

by JENNINGS, H. S. [HERBERT SPENCER]

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1908. Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins Company, 1908. Royal8vo. Offprint, uncut, unopened in the original printed wrappers. Reprinted from "The Journal of Experimental Zoölogy", Vol. V [5], No. 4. Light miscolouring to front wrapper, otherwise a very fine and clean copy. 577-632 pp. Scarce offprint of Jennings' important work in which he published the results of his investigations of heredity and selection in Paramecium. "Most of this lons paper was devoted to a study of the effects of environment and growth upon the sizes of Paramecium, both effects were found to be quite large. (Provine, The Origins of Theoretical Population Genetics, P. 100)"Herbert Spencer Jennings was widely recognized and greatly respected not only as a pioneering biological investigator but also as a thinker, philosopher, and educator . He was a master of the art of setting forth simply, clearly, and vividly, in print and in public lectures, the current state of genetics and general biology and of recognizing and pointing out… Read More
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