Hugo De Vries Quotes

1848–1935 Netherlands

Hugo De Vries (February 21, 1848 – May 21, 1935) was a Dutch botanist and one of the first geneticists. He is known chiefly for suggesting the concept of genes, rediscovering the laws of heredity in the 1890s while unaware of Gregor Mendel's work, for introducing the term "mutation", and for developing a saltationist theory.

Netherlands
Biologists
Botanists

Also known as: Hugo de Vries

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To put it in the terms chosen lately by Mr. Arthur Harris in a friendly criticism of my views: "Natural selection may explain the survival of the fittest, but it cannot explain the arrival of the fittest."

Concluding sentence of his work Species and Varieties: Their Origin by Mutation (1904)

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