Germ plasm
Germ plasm The germ plasm (or polar plasm) is a zone found in the ...
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Chromosome theory   (translated from Japanese)
Chromosome theory Chromosome theoryThe せ which (the plug it ... does and the ょ く wants, Chromosome theory (of inheritance), same: Chromosome theory) with, heredity chromosome . As for this theory gene is on the chromosome, with present ... do not follow this. As for chromosome theory バッタ was used cytology observationWalter S ...
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August Weismann
... century, after Charles Darwin. Weismann advocated the germ plasm theory, stating that a multicellular organism consists of germ cells that pass on hereditary information, and ... somatic cells that perform body functions. The germ cells are not affected by anything ...
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History of evolutionary thought
... existed since ancient times, but the modern theory wasn't established until the 18th and ... the fact of evolution, and proposing the theory of natural selection to explain the mechanism ... in moulding organisms. Immanuel Kant, in his Theory of the Heavens (1755), foreshadowed a theory of the development of unformed matter into ... in his Philosophie Zoologique of 1809 a theory, later known as Lamarckism, by which ...
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Hybridism
... to exert little attraction for the alien germ-cells. Finally, when the actual impregnation of ... logically dissipated by a single positive result. Theory of Hybridism Charles Darwin was interested in ... the bearing of the facts on the theory of the origin of species. It is ... afterwards GJ Romanes, showed, however, that the theory of natural selection did not require the ... is almost as much opposed to the theory of natural selection as to that ...
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Gene-centered view of evolution
... gene-centric view of evolution, gene selection theory or selfish gene theory holds that natural selection acts through differential ... evolution is a logical extension of the theory of natural selection proposed by Charles Darwin ... and development. Gregor Mendel's particulate inheritance theory, August Weismann's continuity of the germ plasm, and Francis Crick's central ...
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Evolutionary economics
... Light', the first 200 years of economic theory was modeled primarily on physics — economic ... as it was challenged by Darwinian evolutionary theory in biology and by studies of self ... was a specialized variant of the " instrumental theory of value " due to John Dewey, with ... not restricted to, his most famous works (Theory of the Leisure Class; Theory of Business Enterprise), but his monograph ...
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Talk:August Weismann
... Karl Pearson reasoned that, if Weismann's germ plasm theory is correct, then it is a waste ... character who is not aware that the germ plasm theory was eventually replaced by the ...
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Richard Owen
... Tilbury (London, 1884). Owen and Darwin's theory of evolution Following the Voyage of the ... spur to the inception of Darwin's theory of natural selection. At this time Owen ... theories. During the development of Darwin's theory his investigation of barnacles found in 1849 ... venue. On the publication of Darwin's theory in The Origin of Species he sent ... me." During the reaction to Darwin's theory Huxley's arguments with Owen continued. ...
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Modern evolutionary synthesis
... denotes the combination of Charles Darwin's theory of the evolution of species by natural selection, Gregor Mendel's theory of genetics as the basis for biological ... term neo-Darwinism to refer to the theory of evolution preferred by Alfred Russel Wallace ... that hereditary material, which he called the germ plasm, was kept utterly separate from the ...
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