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Weismann   /wˈaɪsmən/   Listen
Weismann

noun
1.
German biologist who was one of the founders of modern genetics; his theory of genetic transmission ruled out the possibility of transmitting acquired characteristics (1834-1914).  Synonym: August Friedrich Leopold Weismann.






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"Weismann" Quotes from Famous Books



... the issue between the Lamarckians and Weismannists—whether changes acquired by the parent are inherited by the young—recent experiments again suggest something of a compromise. Weismann says that the body of the parent is but the case containing the germ-plasm, so that all modifications of the living parent body perish with it, and do not affect the germ, which builds the next generation. Certainly, when we reflect that the 70,000 ...
— The Story of Evolution • Joseph McCabe



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