August Weismann's "Essays Upon Heredity" is a collection of biological writings exploring the mechanisms of inheritance. This work is significant for proposing the germ plasm theory, which distinguished between germ cells and somatic cells and influenced modern evolutionary thought.
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August Weismann — Essays Upon Heredity in Biology
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- Charles Darwin — On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Gregor Mendel — Experiments on Plant Hybridization (1866)
- Thomas Henry Huxley — Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature (1863)
- Jean-Henri Fabre — The Life of the Fly (1913 (English ed.))
- Carl Linnaeus — Systema Naturae (1735)
- Alfred Russel Wallace — The Malay Archipelago (1869)
- Theodor Schwann — Microscopical Researches (1847 (English ed.))
- Ernst Haeckel — Generelle Morphologie der Organismen (1866)