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Mar 27, 1817 Kilchberg, canton of Zürich, Switzerland Died on 10 May 1891 (aged 74)
Swiss botanist
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About Carl Nägeli
- Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli (26 or 27 March 1817 – 10 May 1891) was a Swiss botanist.
- He studied cell division and pollination but became known as the man who discouraged Gregor Mendel from further work on genetics.
- He rejected natural selection as a mechanism of evolution, favouring orthogenesis driven by a supposed "inner perfecting principle".
