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This is an expanded version of a lecture presented 29 May 1984, at a symposium held in Freiburg, Germany, to celebrate the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the birth of August Weismann (1834–1914). The paper is dedicated to Bernhard Rensch on the occasion of his eighty-fifth birthday, 21 January 1985. All translations are my own except where an English-language edition is cited.
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Mayr, E. Weismann and evolution. J Hist Biol 18, 295–329 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00138928
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