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Weismannism

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Noun
  1. 1
    The principle that hereditary information moves only from genes to body cells, and never the other way round. uncountable

    "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."

Etymology

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

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