impression-inheritance

Updated: July 13, 2026

And use-inheritance all the while is being thoroughly overpowered by impression-inheritance by the full transmission of that which is merely seen in others! If such a law prevails, one may feel cold because an ancestor thought of the frosty Caucasus.

W. P. (William Platt) Ball - Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited?: An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin