Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
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Hugo Marie de Vries (1848-1935) was a Dutch botanist and one of the first geneticists. He is known chiefly for suggesting the concept of genes, rediscovering Gregor Mendel's laws of heredity in the 1890s, and for developing a mutation theory of evolution. In 1866 he enrolled at the Leiden University to major in botany. He took part in W. F.R. Suringar's classes and excursions, but was mostly drawn to the experimental botany outlined in Julius Sachs' 'Lehrbuch der Botanik' from 1868. He wrote a dissertation on the effect of heat on plant roots, including several statements by Darwin to provoke ...
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