Fraud sealed the fate of controversial zoologist Paul Kammerer — 100 years on, his ideas deserve revisiting0

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• September 14, 2026

One hundred years ago, on 23 September 1926, zoologist Paul Kammerer shot himself on Hochschneeberg, a mountain plateau southwest of Vienna. He was discovered slumped against a rock by a retired railway worker who had followed the barking of the dogs Kammerer had taken with him on his final walk. Shock at the zoologist’s death