Article ID: CBB001510263

Of Germ-Plasm and Zymoplasm: August Weismann, Carlo Emery and the Debate about the Transmission of Acquired Characteristics (2015)

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Dröscher, Ariane (Author)


History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Volume: 36, no. 3
Issue: 3
Pages: 394-403


Publication Date: 2015
Edition Details: Part of a Series: Crossroads between nature and culture: Papers in honour of Christiane Groeben
Language: English

In this essay I discuss the contents and the context of Italian zoologist and entomologist Carlo Emery's discussion of the germ-plasm theory. August Weismann considered him one of his very few creditable supporters, and encouraged him to publish his theoretical reflections. In his Gedanken zur Descendenz- und Vererbungstheorie, which appeared between 1893 and 1903 as a series of five essays in the journal Biologisches Zentralblatt, Emery developed a very personal account, applying the concept of determinants to problems like atavism, sexual dimorphism, speciation, geographical isolation, transmission of characters, and putting forward, as early as 1903, the idea of a genetic program.

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Authors & Contributors
Weissman, Charlotte
Hall, Brian K.
Ceccarelli, David
Nelson, E. C.
Volpone, Alessandro
Stamhuis, Ida H.
Concepts
Heredity
Genetics
Evolution
Biology
Natural selection
Darwinism
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
Places
United States
Europe
Great Britain
Moscow (Russia)
England
Ukraine
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