Kammerer

noun

Paul. 1880–1926, Austrian zoologist: noted for his controversial experiments, esp with the midwife toad, apparently demonstrating the inheritance of acquired characteristics. Accused of fraud, he committed suicide

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Examples from the Web for kammerer

Throughout Kammerer's papers this is used almost as a technical term.
Problems of Genetics|William Bateson
Very remarkable are the hereditary changes which Kammerer established in Alytes obstetricans—the midwife toad.
Abstracts of Papers Read at the First International Eugenics Congress|Various
Kammerer's experiments, however, show that we are dealing with the direct effects of definite outside forces.
Darwin and Modern Science|A.C. Seward and Others
It will suffice to remind the reader of the Austrians Kammerer and Stellmacher.
Anarchism and Socialism|George Plechanoff