Who coined the term “mutation”?
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Mutation comes from the Latin word mutationem meaning “a changing.” Hugo de Vries introduced the term mutation and developed the Mutation theory of evolution. The theory was given in the year 1901.
In 1901 the geneticist Hugo de Vries gave the name “mutation” to seemingly new forms that suddenly arose in his experiments on the evening primrose Oenothera lamarckiana.