Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c6.2

Language: English

c6.2

The principle of Heredity plays an important part in modern Biology. Darwin with his theory of Pangenesis, and Wiesmann with his theory of Germ-plasm and the neo-Darwinians and the neo-Wiesmannians with their improvements have not yet been able to come to any all-round satisfactory solution of the problem. And it is interesting to see what the ancient Biologists, coming at least two thousand years before Darwin and Wiesmann thought about this important problem. As plant life constitutes one of the principal themes of Biology we insert below Dr. Seal’s Chapter¹ on Heredity in its entirety with full references of the text from which he derives his information :

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