biography
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| lived:
| (1880–1926)
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| biography:
| Biologist, born in Vienna, Austria. He studied in Vienna, where he joined the Institute of Experimental Biology. He claimed to be able to prove that acquired traits could be inherited, and produced at Cambridge three generations of a species of toad where nuptial pads induced in the first had been inherited by the second and third generations (1923). However, after G K Noble of the American Museum of Natural History examined material preserved from Kammerer's work, and showed that the pads were in fact due to injections of ink, Kammerer shot himself. |
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