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Somatic variation and evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2016

Leo W. Buss
Leo W. Buss*
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Department of Biology and Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511
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The most popular theoretical propositions are often those which spell the final doom to a notion that has already fallen into disrepute. This is as true today as it was when August Weismann (1892) published his seminal volume, Der Keimplasma, which far more than Cuvier's vituperative attacks, put the ideas of Lamarck to final rest.

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Paleobiology , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , Winter 1983 , pp. 12 - 16
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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