MAUPERTUIS, Pierre Louis Moreau de
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Dissertation physique à l’occasion du nègre blanc.Leiden: [Publisher not identified], 1744.Stimulated by the much talked about appearance of an albino negro in Paris, Maupertuis expressed theories of biparental heredity and epigenesis which substantially anticipated those of Darwin, Mendel, and De Vries nearly a century and a half later. Subjects: GENETICS / HEREDITY |
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Vénus physique, contenant deux dissertations, l’une, sur l’origine des hommes et des animaux, et l’autre, sur l’origine des noirs.The Hague, 1745.English translation, The earthly Venus, was published in New York, 1966. Includes a reprint of No. 215.1. Subjects: GENETICS / HEREDITY |