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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 Romanes, George John

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 Smith, William Benjamin

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 Crampton, Henry Edward