GoKawiilZoologist Paul Kammerer's fraud-tainted legacy reassessed a century after his suicide
Paul Kammerer, once hailed as a successor to Darwin, killed himself in 1926 weeks after herpetologist Gladwyn Noble revealed evidence that his celebrated experiment on inherited traits had been faked. The scandal, combined with his flair for public self-promotion and unconventional theories like universal coincidence patterns, led many scientists to dismiss his entire body of work. A century later, new scientific findings suggest some of his underlying questions about heredity may deserve renewed attention.