TV Episode Summaries for
13th May 1974

NOVA Season 1, Episode 11

The Case Of The Midwife Toad

Airs: 1:00am - 2:00am on PBS

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 Kammerer's infamous experiment.
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