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The Weismannian hypothesis of absolute continuity is one thing, while the observed fact of at least a high relative degree of continuity is quite another thing.
From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by George John Romanes
De Vries's new "mutation theory" is clearly not an alternative but a complementary theory to natural selection, the Weismannian and Mendelian theories.
From The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope by Henry Edward Crampton
We need not raise the question of the general Weismannian theory of heredity; but we must recognize, as wholly undeniable, that the characters and qualities acquired by education are not in any degree inherited.
From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by William Benjamin Smith
