Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A theory of heredity proposed by Charles Darwin in which gemmules containing hereditary information from every part of the body coalesce in the gonads and are incorporated into the reproductive cells.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A provisional hypothesis advanced by Darwin to explain the phenomena of reproduction in organisms.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) An hypothesis advanced by Darwin in explanation of heredity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
mechanism forheredity proposed by Charles Darwin long before the true mechanism was discovered, according to which thecells of the body shed "gemmules " which collect in thereproductive organs prior tofertilization .
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The main inducement leading to the original formu - lation of the idea of pangenesis was the ancients 'rec - ognition that many single characters of the organism can vary quite independently of the rest and can be separately transmitted to offspring.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas PETER VORZIMMER 1968
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Francis Galton, Charles Darwin stubbornly held to the notion of pangenesis as he had no
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Francis Galton, Charles Darwin stubbornly held to the notion of pangenesis as he had no
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] JackHT 2010
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Despite there being devastating experimental evidence against the notion of pangenesis provided by
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] JackHT 2010
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Despite there being devastating experimental evidence against the notion of pangenesis provided by
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Despite there being devastating experimental evidence against the notion of pangenesis provided by
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] JackHT 2010
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Despite there being devastating experimental evidence against the notion of pangenesis provided by
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Despite there being devastating experimental evidence against the notion of pangenesis provided by
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Francis Galton, Charles Darwin stubbornly held to the notion of pangenesis as he had no
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] JackHT 2010
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Francis Galton, Charles Darwin stubbornly held to the notion of pangenesis as he had no
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