Abstract
IT is a little curious that, although Darwin was so much more an experimenter than an anatomist, the immediate stimulus of his work was to anatomy, and not to experiment. There is, however, ample evidence that morphology is beginning to advance on the lines prophesied for it at the end of the “Origin of Species,” and that morphologists are to enter the “almost untrodden field of inquiry on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation, on the effects of use and disuse, on the direct action of external conditions.”
Die Entstehung der Arten auf Grund von Vererben erworbener Eigenschaften nach den Gesetzen organischen Wachsens.
Von Dr. G. H. Theodor Eimer, Professor der Zoologie und vergleichenden Anatomie zu Tübingen. (Jena: Gustaf Fischer, 1888.)
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M., P. Dr. Eimer on the Origin of Species . Nature 38, 123–125 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038123a0
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