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1908. Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins Company, 1908. Royal8vo. Offprint, uncut, unopened in the original printed wrappers. Reprinted from "The Journal of Experimental Zoölogy", Vol. V [5], No. 4. Light miscolouring to front wrapper, otherwise a very fine and clean copy. 577-632 pp. Scarce offprint of Jennings' important work in which he published the results of his investigations of heredity and selection in Paramecium. "Most of this lons paper was devoted to a study of the effects of environment and growth upon the sizes of Paramecium, both effects were found to be quite large. (Provine, The Origins of Theoretical Population Genetics, P. 100)"Herbert Spencer Jennings was widely recognized and greatly respected not only as a pioneering biological investigator but also as a thinker, philosopher, and educator . He was a master of the art of setting forth simply, clearly, and vividly, in print and in public lectures, the current state of genetics and general biology and of recognizing and pointing out… Leer más