The Case of the Midwife Toad

May 12, 1974 on PBS at 9:00 PM

Summary

When Paul Kammerer committed suicide in 1926, it was taken by most of his fellow biologists as a tacit admission of guilt that he had faked his experiments purporting to show the inheritance of acquired characteristics. Arthur Koestler joins NOVA in ... (more)an in-depth examination of Kammerer's infamous experiment.

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