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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

introduced by Schleicher in 1878, or "equational division", proposed by August Weismann in 1887. However, the term "mitosis" is also used in a broad sense...

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

quarantined in a sanitarium recovering from tuberculosis, Spemann read August Weismann's book The Germ Plasm: A Theory of Heredity. He wrote in his autobiography:...

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...

(Für Darwin), by Hermann Müller (Fertilization of Plants by Insects), August Weismann, Edward B. Poulton and Abbott Thayer. There was considerable progress...