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NOVA•Season 1•Episode 11

The Case of the Midwife Toad

May 12, 197455 min

When Paul Kammerer committed suicide in 1926, it was taken by most of his fellow biologists as a tacit admission of guilt that he had faked his experiments purporting to show the inheritance of acquired characteristics. Arthur Koestler joins NOVA in an in-depth examination of

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Episode Summary

"The Case of the Midwife Toad" is episode 11 of NOVA season 1. It aired on May 12, 1974.

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