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August Weismann

(1834–1914) Zoologist

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August Weismann was a zoologist.

Quick Facts About August Weismann

Born: January 17, 1834
Died: November 5, 1914
Profession: Zoologist

About August Weismann

[Wikidata] German evolutionary biologist (1834-1914)... | [Wikipedia] August Friedrich Leopold Weismann was a German evolutionary biologist. Fellow German Ernst Mayr ranked him as the second most notable evolutionary theorist of the 19th century, after Charles Darwin. Weismann became the Director of the Zoological Institute and the first Professor of Zoology at Freibu

Quotes by August Weismann

What a sublime idea of the infinite might of the great Architect, the Cause of all causes, the Father of all fathers,…

August Weismann

Architect

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The world has been evolved, not created: it has arisen little by little from a small beginning, and has increased through the…

August Weismann

Activity

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Every individual alive today, even the very highest, is to be derived in an unbroken line from the first and lowest forms.

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Alive

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We do not draw conclusions with our eyes, but with our reasoning powers, and if the whole of the rest of living…

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Accord

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“Evidently neither cats nor dogs, nor other animals that listen to human music, were constituted for the appreciation of it, for it…

August Weismann

Biology

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