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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



... development of instincts among the higher animals, and of speech and reason in man. "The inheritance of characters acquired during the life of the individual, is an indispensable axiom of the monistic doctrine of evolution." "Those who, with Weismann and Galton, deny this, entirely exclude thereby the possibility of any formative influence of the outer world upon organic form" (Anthropogenie, 4th ed., pp. xxiii., 836; see, further, the works there referred to of Eimer, Weismann, Ray-Lankester, etc.; also Ludwig ...
— Monism as Connecting Religion and Science • Ernst Haeckel



Words linked to "Weismann" :   geneticist, August Friedrich Leopold Weismann



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