August Weismann, German biologist, zoologist, and geneticist (died 1914)

August Weismann

German evolutionary biologist (1834–1914)

August Friedrich Leopold Weismann was a German evolutionary biologist. Fellow German Ernst Mayr ranked him as the second most notable evolutionary theorist of the 19th century, after Charles Darwin. Weismann became the Director of the Zoological Institute and the first Professor…