telegony

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The idea of telegony, the persistent influence of the first mating, may be invoked to explain this discrepancy It is a pure myth.

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  1. In biology, the supposed influence of a first sire upon the progeny subsequently borne by the mother to other sires. Most breeders are believers in telegony, although careful experiments have failed to show any scientific basis for their opinion. At present the scientific evidence is so distinctly unfavourable to belief in the occurrence of telegony, that to discuss suggested explanations or criticisms seems unnecessary. Encyc. Brit, XXXII. 215.

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  • But if writer-director Jody Hill's second feature reveals the telegony of movies past, it's also very much -- and this may be the most disturbing thing about it -- a child of its time. —  California Chronicle
  • But if writer-director Jody Hill's second feature reveals the telegony of movies past, it's also very much - and this may be the most disturbing thing about it - a child of its time. —  California Chronicle
  • The idea of telegony, the persistent influence of the first mating, may be invoked to explain this discrepancy It is a pure myth. —  Applied Eugenics
  • In such a case as the one quoted, the explanation is undoubtedly that the supposed father is not the real one; and this explanation will dispose of all other cases of telegony which can not be explained, as in most instances they can be, by the mixed ancestry of the offspring and the innate tendency of all living things to vary Now to sum up this long chapter. —  Applied Eugenics
  • In a systematic discussion of telegony before the Royal Medical Society, —  Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
 

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  1. New Latin telegonia, from Greek τηλέγονος, born far away (from one's father or fatherland) (used as a person's name), from τη%24λε, afar, + -γονος, -born.
 

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