Quote of the day
Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs.
August Weismann
Born: January 17, 1834
Died: November 5, 1914 (aged 80)
Bio: August Friedrich Leopold Weismann was a German evolutionary biologist. Ernst Mayr ranked him the second most notable evolutionary theorist of the 19th century, after Charles Darwin.
Known for:
- The germ-plasm (1893)
- The evolution theory (1904)
- Studies in the theory of descent