WEISMANN, AUGUST

ouˈgoost vīsˈmän, 1834–1914, German biologist. He taught zoology at the Univ. of Freiburg from 1866 to 1912. He is known as the originator of the germ-plasm theory of heredity. His doctrine, formerly called Weismannism, stresses the unbroken continuity of the germ plasm and the nonheritability of acquired characteristics. His works include The Germ-Plasm (1892, tr. 1893) and a series of essays translated into English as Essays upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems (2d ed., 2 vol., 1891–92).

See G. J. Romanes, An Examination of Weismannism (1903).

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From Comte to Benjamin Kidd: The Appeal to Biology or Evolution for Human Guidance
Book by Robert Mackintosh; Macmillan, 1899
Subjects: Biology, Comte, Auguste--1798-1857, Evolution, Kidd, Benjamin--1858-1916, Weismann, August--1834-1914
...must help, as hitherto -- Now, Weismann had riddled his own position...province of thought. Already in Auguste Comte, the founder or the...of the gospel he teaches. Auguste Comte was born at Montpellier...wise and well-cultured man, Auguste Comte. It is not simply an...
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Hayek on Hayek: An Autobiographical Dialogue
Book by Stephen Kresge, Leif Wenar; Routledge, 1994
Subjects: Economists--Austria--Biography, Economists--Austria--Interviews, Economists--Great Britain--Biography, Economists--Great Britain--Interviews, Hayek, Friedrich A. Von--(Friedrich August)--1899---Interviews
...biology and my longing for theory, put the two heavy volumes of Weismanns Vortrage uber Deszendenztheorie in my hands. They were still...theory of evolution, just a year too early. If he had put Weismann and DeVries into my hands a year later, I would probably have...
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Popular Contemporary Writers - Vol. 10
Book by Michael D. Sharp; Marshall Cavendish Reference, 2006
Subjects: American Literature--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, Authors, American--20th Century--Biography--Dictionaries, Authors, English--20th Century--Biography--Dictionaries, English Literature--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, Popular Literature--English-Speaking Countries--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, Smith, Zadie, Sobel, Dava, Soto, Gary, Turow, Scott, Updike, John, Vreeland, Susan, Watson, Larry--1947-, Wilson, August, Wolff, Tobias--1945-
...failing marriage, a difficult pregnancy, and single parenthood, is the presiding judge. Her lover from years past, Seth Weismann, is a columnist reporting on the trial. The murdered woman was the ex-wife of a charismatic revolutionary, now a state...
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Art and Time in Mexico: Architecture and Sculpture in Colonial Mexico
Book by Elizabeth Wilder Weismann, Judith Hancock Sandoval; Icon Editions, 1995
Subjects: Art, Colonial--Mexico, Art, Mexican
...Church and open chapel of the Augusti nian monastery. Epazoyucan...Vaulting of nave, church of the Augusti nian monastery. Atotonilco...the facade. ELIZABETH WILDER WEISMANN ART AND TIME IN MEXICO In...blossoms pink with cosmos in late August, and far away on the edge...
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Classics of Biology
Book by August Pi Suñer, Charles M. Stern; Philosophical Library, 1955
Subjects: Biology
...Reproduction by somatic cells A. Weismann: Vortrage uber Descendenztheorie -- Die Keimplasmatheorie...Plato: . Saint Augustine : Confessionium . M. Scheler...
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journal articles on: Weismann August  - 19 results

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Lamarckism and the Construction of Transcendence in the House of Mirth
Journal article by Sharon Kim; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 38, 2006
Subjects: Lamarckism--Analysis, Mendel, Gregor--Works, The House of Mirth (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Transcendence (Philosophy)--Analysis, Transcendence--Analysis, Wharton, Edith--Works
...century. (8) In the 1880s, when August Weismann chopped off generations of mice...1870-1910 13 (1980): 238-45. Rohrbach, Augusta. Truth Stranger Than Fiction...Houghton and Mifflin Co., 1973. Weismann, August. The Evolution Theory. Trans...
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Generalizing Darwinism to Social Evolution: Some Early Attempts
Journal article by Geoffrey M. Hodgson; Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 39, 2005
Subjects: Evolution (Biology)--Case studies, Evolution--Case studies, Social evolution--Analysis
...work. By 1896 Morgan had accepted the arguments of August Weismann (1893) that acquired characters could not be inherited...Bernard Shaw, 33-61. London: Fabian Society, 1889. Weismann, August. The Germ-Plasm: A Theory of Heredity, translated...
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Always with Us
Journal article by Howard Horwitz; American Literary History, Vol. 10, 1998
Subjects: American Literature--History And Criticism
...2 Even the first biologist to oppose Lamarckism, August Weismann, reflexively incorporated into his germ-plasm theory...Political and Social Science 1 ( July 1901 ): 67-89. Weismann, August. On Germinal Selection as a Source of Definite Variation...
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Heredity and Alcoholism in the Medical Sphere: the Netherlands, 1850-1900
Journal article by Stephen Snelders, Frans J. Meijman, Toine Pieters; Medical History, Vol. 51, 2007
...medical domain was provided by August Weismanns (1834-1914) new notion of the...a positive sense, he wrote, but Weismann did not deny "inheritance in a...researcher and temperance activist Auguste Forel explained at the Fourth International...
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Chapter 1: the So-called Eclipse of Darwinism
Journal article by Mark A. Largent; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 99, 2009
Subjects: Cell division, Evolutionary biology, Generations
...account for some of the problems that other researchers had suggested. Among die most vocal of diese tiieorists was August Weismann, who aggressively attacked Lamarckian notions and offered his theory of Panmixia to explain vestigial organs, and...
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magazine articles on: Weismann August  - 5 results

 
 
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Climbing to the Top
Magazine article by Jamilah Evelyn; Black Issues in Higher Education, Vol. 15, May 28, 1998
Subjects: Bowen, Raymond, Cleveland, OH, Colleges & universities, Education, Educators, Higher education, Minority & ethnic groups, Teaching, Vaughan, George
...more than others is their tenure in office. The Vaughan and Weismann report indicates that minority presidents tend not to stay...says Wheelan, who will move to her new college community in August. "The challenge that African American CEOs have is being accepted...
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Last Secrets of the Bush Administration: How to Find out What We Still Don't Know
Magazine article by Charles Homans; Washington Monthly, Vol. 40, November 2008
Subjects: Conservatism--Political aspects, Gonzales, Alberto--Political activity, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
...Bushs attorney now wanted until the end of August. Carlin agreed again. The extensions continued...Justice Department attorney named Anne Weismann stood in front of Judge Emmet Sullivan...sheepishly acknowledging the title of the August 6, 2001, presidential daily briefing...
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Social Darwinism Revisited
Magazine article by Leslie Jones; History Today, Vol. 48, August 1998
Subjects: Eugenics--History, Social Darwinism--History
...was incompatible with what biologist August Weismann in the 1880s called the `continuity of the germplasm. Weismann also held that when an organ or faculty...socialism was `built on a quagmire, namely, Weismanns unproven and `purely descriptive theories...
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Whence Comes Death? How Natural Selection Has Fashioned Aging and Death; Why "Natural" Isn't the Last Word in Healthy Foods and Lifestyles; and Some Observations on Objective Science Pursued by Subjective Humans
Magazine article by Joshua Mitteldorf; The Humanist, Vol. 62, January 2002
Subjects: Aging--Physiological aspects, Death--Analysis, Life (Biology)--Physiological aspects
...thermodynamics and evolution were yet new, August Weismann realized that there was no physical...the body to degrade over time. Weismann was the first to speculate that...grew up as a quantitative science, Weismanns hypothesis began to seem untenable...
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Biology of the Soul
Magazine article by Richard J. Goss; The Humanist, Vol. 54, November 1994
Subjects: Dualism (Philosophy)--Analysis, Dualism--Analysis, Regeneration (Biology)--Religious aspects, Soul, Soul--History of doctrines
...although a pin prick may suffice in lower forms). But fertilization is not how life began. Ever since 1893, when August Weismann formulated his theory of the continuity of all life through the germ plasm, it has been universally recognized that...


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newspaper articles on: Weismann August  - 5 results

 
 
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Honor Roll
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September 6, 2008
...and John Thumel. HIGH HONORS Seniors: Amanda Achille, Ashley August, Amie Bauer, Matthew Berg, Nicole Bersani, Christopher Bretzlauf...Tracy Uchi, Jaclyn Vresics, Eden Warnke, Kathleen Weeks, Emily Weismann, Erika Wenson, Kate Wilson, John Matthew Zern, Peter Zizzo...
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At Last, the Scientists Can Tell Us Why We Make Love; Proof That the Mating Game Helps a Species to Survive
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 31, 2005
...clones, there is no chance of producing a better version of the species. It was a 19th century scientist called August Weismann who first came up with the theory that sexual reproduction may help natural selection by producing offspring better...
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Honor Roll
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), November 23, 2008
...Andrew Stearns, Joseph Urbanik, Megan Wales, Alexander Wicks, August Winter and Rachel Zeitlin. Juniors: Kyle Bessa, Alexia Bounadere...Warden, Margaret Watson, Eric Wawrzyniak, Kathleen Weeks, Emily Weismann, William Werner, Kate Wilson, John Matthew Zern, Alyssa Zizzo...
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Honor Rolls Carmel Catholic High School
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September 11, 2009
...Zachary Starzyk, Nicole Taylor, Joseph Urbanik, Lauren Welton, August Winter and Rachel Zeitlin. Juniors: Madeline Allen, Stephen...Watson, Margaret Watson, Eric Wawrzyniak, Kathleen Weeks, Emily Weismann, William Werner, Kate Wilson, Jacob Wolfe, John Matthew Zern...
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Honor Rolls
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), August 26, 2008
...and John Thumel. HIGH HONORS Seniors: Amanda Achille, Ashley August, Amie Bauer, Matthew Berg, Nicole Bersani, Christopher Bretzlauf...Tracy Uchi, Jaclyn Vresics, Eden Warnke, Kathleen Weeks, Emily Weismann, Erika Wenson, Kate Wilson, John Matthew Zern, Peter Zizzo...


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encyclopedia articles on: Weismann August  - 1 result

 
 
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Weismann, August
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
WEISMANN, AUGUST ou goost vis man, 1834 1914, German...heredity . His doctrine, formerly called Weismannism, stresses the unbroken continuity of...See G. J. Romanes, An Examination of Weismannism (1903). ____________________ Copyright...


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