1849-1922 German zoologist and embryologist who in 1876 postulated that fertilization is a result of the fusion of germ cell nuclei from the male and female parents. This was a departure from the traditional view that the sperm induced a physical...

Oscar Hertwig (April 21, 1849, Friedberg, Hesse - October 25, 1922, Berlin) was a German zoologist and professor, who also wrote about the theory of evolution circa 1916, over 55 years after Charles Darwin's book The Origin of Species. He was the older...