Item #29489 Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems (2 Volumes). August Weismann, Edward B. Poulton, Selmar Schonland, Arthur E. Shipley.
Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems (2 Volumes)
Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems (2 Volumes)
Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems (2 Volumes)

Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems (2 Volumes).

Oxford, England: The Clarendon Press, 1891/1892. Hardcover. Second Edition/First Edition. Volume I: Second Edition, 1891, xv, 471, 8 (ads) pp.; Volume II: First Edition, 1892, v, [5], 226, 76 (ads) pp. 8vo. Blue cloth publisher bindings that have sharp gold embossed titling to the spines. Very minor scuffing to covers, minor fraying at head of spines, now in mylar dust jackets. Black endpapers with the gutters just beginning to show wear. Previous owner's name on front pastedown of each volume with a hand inked call number, which is the only indication of being ex-library. Many pages in Volume II uncut at top of of pages. Very Good.
Volume II contains an English translation of Weismann's "Amphixis", Garrison-Morton 234 (citing 1st German ed, 1891); "By 'amphiximis' Weismann meant the union of the two parent germs, which he considered the principle source of heritable variation in evolution by natural selection."
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