Weismannism

English

Etymology

Weismann +‎ -ism, after August Weismann, who proposed the theory.

Noun

Weismannism (uncountable)

1. The principle that hereditary information moves only from genes to body cells, and never the other way round.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     Publications: "Some Observations Upon a Series of Kalmuck Skulls"; "Outlines of Vertebrate Evolution"; and numerous papers, including "The underlying fallacy of Weissmannism," which caused heated discussion at the Zoological Congress of Vienna.

Derived terms

• neo-Weismannism