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3 unusual facts about August Weismann


August Weismann

It was described again in 1883, at the level of chromosomes, by Van Beneden in Ascaris eggs.

He returned to Frankfurt as personal physician to the banished Archduke Stephen of Austria at Schaumburg Castle from 1861 to 1863.

Weismann barrier

The Weismann barrier is the principle, proposed by August Weismann, that hereditary information moves only from genes to body cells, and never in reverse.


Leo Buss

He reevaluates August Weismann's model of the cell compartmentalization of somatic and germline cell lineages (see Weismann barrier), and argues that the vision of the individual taken by the modern synthesis is insufficient to explain the early evolution of development or ontogeny.


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