Weismann's

I provided Weismann's experiment with two regional varieties of Polymmatus phlaeas that demonstrated wing color (light or dark) could be changed by adjusting the temperature.

Darwin's Defenders Go Neo-Lamarckian 2007

I provided in this blog Weismann's experiment with light and dark varieties of a butterfly species in Italy, where adult coloration was switched simply by adjusting the temperature the larvae were exposed to.

Darwin's Defenders Go Neo-Lamarckian 2007

Lamarckism is indistinguishable from Darwin's "Provisional hypothesis of Pangenesis" and went the same way when Weismann's tailless rats produced litters with normal tails.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

If the appeal fails, however, ImClone will have to pay licensing fees to Yeda Research & Development, Weismann's licensing arm.

Update -- ImClone Loses Patent Case 2006

If the appeal fails, however, ImClone will have to pay licensing fees to Yeda Research & Development, Weismann's licensing arm.

ImClone Loses Patent Case 2006

If the appeal fails, however, ImClone will have to pay licensing fees to Yeda Research & Development, Weismann's licensing arm.

Update -- ImClone Loses Patent Case 2006

I think my favorite one last year was August Weismann's essays on heredity, which are so lucid and smart and funny and self-aware that you feel like you're right there in the same room with him, though they were published in the 1880s.

One of the great pleasures Jenny Davidson 2005

In contrast to Weismann's preformationism, Hertwig pointed to the interactions of cells and to the differences among cells for the source of differentiation.

Epigenesis and Preformationism Maienschein, Jane 2005

Präformation oder Epigenese, Hertwig complained that Weismann's theory: merely transfers to an invisible region the solution of a problem that we are trying to solve, at least partially, by investigation of visible characters; and in the invisible region it is impossible to apply the methods of science.

Epigenesis and Preformationism Maienschein, Jane 2005

I think my favorite one last year was August Weismann's essays on heredity, which are so lucid and smart and funny and self-aware that you feel like you're right there in the same room with him, though they were published in the 1880s.

Archive 2005-07-01 Jenny Davidson 2005