When1: 1889
When2: 1905
Who: Hugo de Vries [de Vries, Hugo]
What: botanist
Where: Netherlands
works\ Theory of Mutations [1901]; Species and Varieties: Their Origin by Mutation [1905]
Detail: He lived 1848 to 1935, studied evening-primrose mutations [1900], and developed inheritance laws based on cell factors {pangenesis, de Vries} [1889]. Plants can jump from form to form, unconstrained by structures. Phylogenesis results from species selection.
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