keimplasma

Updated: May 24, 2025

To designate this condition, Telegony is the word that was coined by Weismann in his "Das Keimplasma," and he defines it as "Infection of the Germ," and, at another time, as "Those doubtful instances in which the offspring is said to resemble, not the father, but an early mate of the mother," or, in other words, the alleged influence of a previous sire on the progeny produced by a subsequent one from the same mother.

George M. (George Milbrey) Gould - Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine