August Friedrich Leopold Weismann FRS (For), HonFRSE, LLD (17 January 1834 – 5 November 1914) was a German evolutionary biologist. Fellow German Ernst...

The Weismann barrier, proposed by August Weismann, is the strict distinction between the "immortal" germ cell lineages producing gametes and "disposable"...

biological concept developed in the 19th century by the German biologist August Weismann. It states that heritable information is transmitted only by germ cells...

cooperation in sociobiology. In 1892, the German evolutionary biologist August Weismann proposed in his germ plasm theory that heritable information is transmitted...

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...

Estonian botanist August Volberg (1896–1982), Estonian architect and educator August Warberg (1842–1915), Swedish actor August Weismann (1834–1914), German...

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...

either by other mechanisms such as genetic contamination or as fraud. August Weismann's experiment, considered definitive in its time, is now considered to...

hereditary material produces. The distinction resembles that proposed by August Weismann (1834–1914), who distinguished between germ plasm (heredity) and somatic...

(78): 502–503. Bibcode:1871Natur...3..502D. doi:10.1038/003502a0. Weismann, August (1892). Das Keimplasma: eine Theorie der Vererbung [The Germ Plasm:...

Weismann, Weissman, Weisman, Waismann, and Vaisman. August Weismann (1834–1914), German biologist, evolutionary theorist and proposer of the Weismann...

clear distinction between germline and somatic cells. For example, August Weismann proposed and pointed out, a germline cell is immortal in the sense...

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...

acquired characteristics. The experimental work of the German biologist August Weismann resulted in the germ plasm theory of inheritance. This led him to declare...

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...

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...

& T. Cremer (1982). "Cytogerontology since 1881: a reappraisal of August Weismann and a review of modern progress" (PDF). Human Genetics. 60 (2): 101–121...

Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants (1994), p. 17. August Weismann, John Arthur Thomson, Margaret R. Thomson, The Evolution Theory (1904)...

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...

"biometrical" school of heredity by Darwin's cousin, Francis Galton. In 1883 August Weismann conducted experiments involving breeding mice whose tails had been...

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...

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...

subsequently referred to the specific concepts of natural selection, the Weismann barrier, or the central dogma of molecular biology. Though the term usually...

inheritance, however, was described only in 1890 by German biologist August Weismann, who noted that two cell divisions were necessary to transform one...

before moving to University of Freiburg, where he was supervised by August Weismann. He then attended the University of Munich, where he graduated with...

way to assign the nucleus an important role in heredity. In 1873, August Weismann postulated the equivalence of the maternal and paternal germ cells...

November 3 – Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (suicide) (b. 1887) November 5 – August Weismann, German evolutionary biologist (b. 1834) November 9 – Princess Therese...

of acquired characteristics led to progress. The minority view of August Weismann, that natural selection was the only mechanism, was called neo-Darwinism...

University of Freiburg, where he earned his doctorate in 1909 under August Weismann. After hearing lectures by Arnold Sommerfeld at the Ludwig Maximilian...

certain interpretations of Mendelian inheritance and the theories of August Weismann.: 335–336  He had identified eugenicists as a major obstacle to the...