August Weismann
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a German evolutionary biologist. Fellow German Ernst Mayr ranked him as the second most notable evolutionary theorist of the 19th century, after Charles Darwin.
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Born
17 January 1834 Frankfurt am Main
Died
5 November 1914 (aged 80) Freiburg
Known for
germ plasm theory
Awards
Darwin–Wallace Medal (Silver, 1908)
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Germany
era
1800+