Weismannism

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Etymology

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

Noun

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Weismannism (uncountable)

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  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.

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