Genetics and the Debate Over Acquired Traits
The Training of the Human Plant
Nonfiction work
By: Luther Burbank
Date: 1907
Source: Burbank, Luther. The Training of the Human Plant. 1907. Reprint, New York: Century, 1916, 81–82.
About the Author: Luther Burbank (1849–1926) was born in Lancaster, Massachusetts, and was a self-taught plant breeder. In 1876, he established a fruit and vegetable farm in Santa Rosa, California, where he bred new varieties of fruits and vegetables. His work won praise from Dutch botanist Hugo de Vries and from Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, all of whom visited his farm.
"Darwin and Paleontology"
Lecture
By: Henry Fairfield Osborn
Date: January 1, 1909
Source: Osborn, Henry Fairfield. "Darwin and Paleontology." In Fifty Years of Darwinism: Modern Aspects of Evolution. New York: Henry Holt, 1909,...
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