# Professor Weismann — The Origin of Species character guide

> Professor Weismann in The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Professor Weismann

**First appearance:** 0036-v-laws-of-variation

## Who they are

A biologist who developed the germ plasm theory of heredity.

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