The Case of the Midwife Toad

On September 23, 1926, an Austrian experimental biologist named Dr. Paul Kammerer committed suicide. Arthur Koestler knew about Dr. Kammerer's work when he was himself a student in Vienna, and has always been interested in his tragic story. The suicide itself came as the climax to a great evolutionary controversy which Kammerer's experiments had aroused. This is the story of that evolutionary controversy.


Genre: Mystery