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Why Did the Modern Synthesis Give Short Shrift to “Soft Inheritance”? (2011)

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This chapter presents three important reasons why evolutionary biologists dismissed Lamarckism or soft inheritance from the Modern Synthesis. The first is the legacy of adhering to August Weismann's ideas of the separation of germ line and soma. The second is the absence, from the 1920s through the 1940s, of convincing for strong evidence for the inheritance of acquired characteristics. The third reason came from the assumptions of population and quantitative genetics, which were developing at the time.

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Book Gissis, Snait B.; Jablonka, Eva (2011) Transformations of Lamarckism: From Subtle Fluids to Molecular Biology. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Churchill, Frederick B.
Loison, Laurent
Abrams, Marshall
Bard, Jonathan B. L.
Braeckman, Johan
Burian, Richard M.
Journals
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Journal of the History of Biology
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Publishers
Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg
University of Chicago Press
Vuibert
University of California, Riverside
Concepts
Evolution
Genetics
Biology
Modern Synthesis (biology)
Lamarckism
Heredity
People
Weismann, August
Waddington, Conrad Hal
Bard, Jonathan B. L.
Bergson, Henri Louis
Butschli, Otto
Correns, Carl Erich
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century, late
20th century
21st century
Places
France
United States
Great Britain
Europe
Germany
Moscow (Russia)
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