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📘 Keep Weismannism from meaning settled

Romanes’s 1893 Examination of Weismannism maps a moving target: germ-plasm theory still shifting under critique. It is a debate book, not a final verdict on heredity.

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What you’ll learn

  1. A theory still movingIntroduce Weismannism as a moving 1890s research program.Germ-plasm rhetoric under Romanes critical eye.
  2. Romanes pressure pointsTrack awkward cases and overreach worries.Regeneration, stability, and embryo selection pressure the theory.
  3. Debate not coronationLeave the book as debate, not coronation.Later genetics rewrote the stage after 1893.

Grounded in trusted sources

  • Project Gutenberg — An Examination of Weismannism (full text)
  • Internet Archive — 1893 digitized edition
  • Canadiana bibliographic record
  • Nature 1893 review of Romanes on Weismann
  • Nature 1893 Romanes reply
  • History of Weismannism / germ-plasm primers

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