Paul Kammerer [SEP] place of death
Paul Kammerer
Paul Kammerer (17 August 1880, in Vienna – 23 September 1926, in Puchberg am Schneeberg) was an Austrian biologist who studied and advocated Lamarckism, the theory that organisms may pass to their offspring characteristics acquired in their lifetime.
Biography.
Biography Education.
He began his academic career at the Vienna Academy by studying music but graduated with a degree in biology.
Biography Biological research.
Kammerer's work in biology largely involved altering the breeding and development of amphibians. He made ovoviviparous fire salamanders become
Fossils of these species have also been found in Europe.
Species.
Species In laboratories.
Apoptosis, the programmed cell death, was first observed in the developing of the tadpoles of the midwife toads 1842 by Carl Vogt.
See also.
- Natterjack toad
- Paul Kammerer
References.
- Carl Vogt: "Untersuchungen über die Entwicklungsgeschichte der Geburtshelferkröte. (Alytes obstetricians)", Solothurn: Jent und Gassman, (1842), p. 130.
- Arthur Koestler, "The Case