August Friedrich Leopold Weismann FRS (For), HonFRSE, LLD (17 January 1834 – 5 November 1914) was a German evolutionary biologist. Fellow German Ernst...
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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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Estonian botanist August Volberg (1896–1982), Estonian architect and educator August Warberg (1842–1915), Swedish actor August Weismann (1834–1914), German...
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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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Lamarckism (redirect from Weismann's experiment)
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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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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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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clear distinction between germline and somatic cells. For example, August Weismann proposed and pointed out, a germline cell is immortal in the sense...
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& T. Cremer (1982). "Cytogerontology since 1881: a reappraisal of August Weismann and a review of modern progress" (PDF). Human Genetics. 60 (2): 101–121...
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future offspring, no matter their progeny. The term was coined by August Weismann from the Greek words τῆλε (tèle) meaning 'far' and γονος (gonos) meaning...
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acquired characteristics. The experimental work of the German biologist August Weismann resulted in the germ plasm theory of inheritance. This led him to declare...
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field of biology at the start of the 20th century through the work of August Weismann, Thomas Hunt Morgan, and others, building on the rediscovered work...
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Friedrich Hayek (redirect from Friedrich August von Hayek)
teenager he read the genetic and evolutionary works of Hugo de Vries and August Weismann and the philosophical works of Ludwig Feuerbach. He noted Goethe as...
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Thorns, spines, and prickles (category Articles with unsourced statements from August 2023)
Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants (1994), p. 17. August Weismann, John Arthur Thomson, Margaret R. Thomson, The Evolution Theory (1904)...
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1904, summa cum laude. Her thesis work was on insect musculature with August Weismann as thesis advisor. She then worked as a zoological assistant at the...
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of acquired traits was shown to have little basis in the 1880s when August Weismann cut the tails off many generations of mice and found that their offspring...
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medical degree in 1867 and then studied zoology at Freiburg under August Weismann followed by studies in Paris. He received a D.Phil. in Würzburg studying...
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"biometrical" school of heredity by Darwin's cousin, Francis Galton. In 1883 August Weismann conducted experiments involving breeding mice whose tails had been...
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Darwinism (category Use British English from August 2010)
subsequently referred to the specific concepts of natural selection, the Weismann barrier, or the central dogma of molecular biology. Though the term usually...
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1914 (redirect from August, 1914)
November 3 – Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (suicide) (b. 1887) November 5 – August Weismann, German evolutionary biologist (b. 1834) November 9 – Princess Therese...
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Meiosis (category Articles to be expanded from August 2020)
inheritance, however, was described only in 1890 by German biologist August Weismann, who noted that two cell divisions were necessary to transform one...
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before moving to University of Freiburg, where he was supervised by August Weismann. Again he left after one semester, this time to join University of...
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Cell nucleus (category Use dmy dates from August 2018)
way to assign the nucleus an important role in heredity. In 1873, August Weismann postulated the equivalence of the maternal and paternal germ cells...
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had presented in Experiments on Plant Hybridization (1865). In 1892, August Weismann set out the idea of a hereditary material, which he called the germ...
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literature." His anti-evolutionary writings were criticized by biologist August Weismann and zoologist Sinai Tschulok. Fleischmann married Franziska Kiefl in...
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certain interpretations of Mendelian inheritance and the theories of August Weismann.: 335–336 He had identified eugenicists as a major obstacle to the...
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