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Or, as Gilbert and Sullivan would put it in 1885: “I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule; consequently my family pride is something inconceivable.”

From Slate • Jul. 18, 2016

Lamarckism is the theory that acquired characteristics can be inherited, that some profit from experience can be passed on to succeeding generations as a sort of protoplasmal memory.

From Time Magazine Archive

From the protoplasmal cell descends the genius; from the loins of the sodden toiler chained to the soil springs the mother of genius or genius itself.

From The Second Generation by Phillips, David Graham

You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.

From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir