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Telegony   Listen
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Telegony  n.  (Biol.) The supposed influence of a father upon offspring subsequent to his own, begotten of the same mother by another father.






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... seed on the physical and mental constitution of the child is well known. To designate this condition, Telegony is the word that was coined by Weismann in his "Das Keimplasma," and he defines it as "Infection of the Germ," and, at another time, as "Those doubtful instances in which the offspring is said to resemble, not the father, but an early mate of the mother,"—or, in other ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould



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