The Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics.; Translated by A. Paul Maerker-Branden.
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1924). First American edition. 8vo, 414pp, illustrated; maroon cloth. Kammerer's controversial work, offering proof of Lamarck's notion that acquired physical characteristics could be genetically inherited, won the Austrian biologist instant fame as the 'new Darwin.' When confronted with evidence that he had faked his results..... More