An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

WEISMANN, August Friedrich Leopold

3 entries
  • 234

Amphimixis, oder die Vermischung der Individuen.

Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1891.

By “amphimixis” Weismann meant the union of the two parent germs, which he considered the principal source of heritable variation in evolution by natural selection. English translation in Weismann’s Essays upon Heredity, Vol. 2, Oxford, 1892.



Subjects: EVOLUTION, GENETICS / HEREDITY
  • 235

Aufsätze über Vererbung und verwandte biologische Fragen.

Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1892.

Weismann produced experimental evidence that acquired characters are not transmitted.



Subjects: EVOLUTION, GENETICS / HEREDITY
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Das Keimplasma.

Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1892.

Weismann elaborated the theory of the continuity of the germ plasm. English edition, 1893.



Subjects: GENETICS / HEREDITY