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

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

DOI: 10.1007/s40656-014-0046-6

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

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Zoology Entomology Genetics Speciation Geographical isolation (biology) Controversies and disputes Heredity 19th century 20th century, early Weismann, August Emery, Carlo

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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Article Bernardi, Giorgio; Fantini, Bernardino; Dröscher, Ariane (2015) Crossroads between Nature and Culture: An Introduction. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (pp. 301-304). unapi

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