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Hugo De Vries

noun

Dutch botanist who rediscovered Mendel's laws and developed the mutation theory of evolution (1848-1935). Synonyms: De Vries, deVries, Hugo deVries.

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... possibility of building up a new species by the accumulation of chance individual variations. That species ever originate in this way is denied by the advocates of the evolutionary theory which is now superseding Darwinism. Typical of the new school is the botanist Hugo De Vries of Amsterdam. The "first-steps" in the origin of new species according to De Vries are not fluctuating individual variations, but mutations, i.e., definite and permanent modifications. According to the mutation theory a new species arises from the parent species, not gradually but ...

— At the Deathbed of Darwinism - A Series of Papers • Eberhard Dennert

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