Article ID: CBB001022396

August Weismann Embraces the Protozoa (2010)

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This paper examines the contents and institutional context of August Weismann's long essay on Amphimixis (1891). Therein he presented detailed discussions of his on-going studies of reduction division and parthenogenesis, but more to the point, he included an elaborate examination of Émile Maupas's two major publications in protozoology. To understand the relevance of this part to the other two, the author briefly reviews highpoints in earlier nineteenth century protozoology and concludes that only in the mid-1870s and 1880s did protozoa add an important dimension to heredity theory. Otto Bütschli and then Maupas provided Weismann with a deeper understanding of how conjugation and fertilization were related but not identical processes. This allowed him to integrate the two into a fuller understanding of evolution by natural selection.

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Authors & Contributors
Hall, Brian K.
Ceccarelli, David
Wilkins, Adam
Pereira Martins, Lilian Al-Chueyr
Yamashita, Grant Joo
Weismann, August
Concepts
Heredity
Evolution
Genetics
Biology
Natural selection
Darwinism
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
21st century
18th century
Places
United States
Europe
Great Britain
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