Kammerer Revisited: A Century Later, Rethinking Inheritance and Evolution
Max Telford revisits Paul Kammerer, the controversial zoologist whose 1920s experiments on the inheritance of acquired traits sparked fierce debate and a later fraud accusation; a century on, the essay argues that new interpretations and subsequent discoveries invite a nuanced reappraisal of Kammerer’s data and his challenge to orthodox Darwinian thinking, while also noting how his public outreach and personal life shaped his scientific reception.
