The Case of the Midwife Toad

On September 23 1926 and Austrian experimental biologist named Dr. Paul Kammerer blew his brains out on a footpath in the Austrian mountains. His suicide was the climax of a great evolutionary controversy which his experiments had aroused. The battle was between the followers of Lamarck who maintained that acquired characteristics could be inherited and the neo-Darwinists who upheld the theory of chance mutations preserved by natural selection. Dr. Kammerers experiments with various amphibians i...See More