WEISMANN, AUGUST

Additional reading A definitive biography of Weismann is E. Gaupp, August Weismann, sein Leben und sein Werk (1917). Weismann's main publications in English translation are: Studies in the Theory of Descent, 2 vol., with a preface by Charles Darwin (1882, reprinted 1975), a detailed discussion of various zoological themes; Essays upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems (1889; 2nd ed., 2 vol., 1891-92); The Germ-Plasm: A Theory of Heredity (1893, reprinted 1974); and The Evolution Theory (1904), a discussion of Darwinism in relation to the germ-plasm theory.