Essai sur la formation des corps organises

by Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis

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First edition

Berlin i.e., Paris : np, 1754. First edition in French, the earliest obtainable, and very rare, of Maupertuis’ remarkable original work on the nature of heredity and evolution, which marks him out, in the words of evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr The Growth of Biological Thought, p. 328 , as “one of the pioneers of genetics”. “Buffon saw clearly that both father and mother made a genetic

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