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    August Friedrich Leopold Weismann (17 January 1834 – 5 November 1914) was a German evolutionary biologist. Fellow German Ernst Mayr ranked him as the...
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    The Weismann barrier, proposed by August Weismann, is the strict distinction between the "immortal" germ cell lineages producing gametes and "disposable"...
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    biological concept developed in the 19th century by the German biologist August Weismann. It states that heritable information is transmitted only by germ cells...
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  • actor August Weismann (1834–1914), German evolutionary biologist August Wesley (1887–1942), Finnish journalist, trade unionist and revolutionary August Wilson...
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    evolutionary theory from either 1895 (for the combinations of Darwin's and August Weismann's theories of evolution) or 1942 ("modern synthesis"), but it can mean...
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  • cooperation in sociobiology. In 1892, the German evolutionary biologist August Weismann proposed in his germ plasm theory that heritable information is transmitted...
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    either by other mechanisms such as genetic contamination or as fraud. August Weismann's experiment, considered definitive in its time, is now considered to...
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  • I meant to say. Dogma was just a catch phrase." The Weismann barrier, proposed by August Weismann in 1892, distinguishes between the "immortal" germ cell...
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    hereditary material produces. The distinction resembles that proposed by August Weismann (1834–1914), who distinguished between germ plasm (heredity) and somatic...
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    Pangenesis (section Weismann)
    (78): 502–503. Bibcode:1871Natur...3..502D. doi:10.1038/003502a0. Weismann, August (1892). Das Keimplasma: eine Theorie der Vererbung [The Germ Plasm:...
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