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Maupertuis' Dissertation on Heredity, First Ed.

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Title: Dissertation Physique a L'Occasion du Negre Blanc
Author: Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de
Description: [12], 132pp. Title vignette. 3½x6½, recent period-style speckled goatskin binding by P. Dusel, black leather spine label, raised bands, spine gilt. First Edition."Stimulated by the much talked about appearance of an albino Negro in Paris, Maupertuis expressed theories of biparental heredity and epigenesis which substantially anticipated those of Darwin, Mendel, and De Vries nearly a century and a half later" - Garrison & Morton." G&M 215.1; Gascoigne 14480.1; Haskell Norman Library 1459. See Glass, "Maupertuis, pioneer of genetics and evolution," in: Forerunners of Darwin: 1745-1859, pp. 51-83.
Heading: zzkPlace Published: Leyden
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Date Published: 1744

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