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What is telegony?

What is telegony? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The belief that, in the case of siblings from the same mother but different fathers, the second sibling could inherit characteristics from the father of the first.
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His experiments so far support the view of Continental mule breeders, that telegony, if it takes place, occurs very seldom.
The Odyssey has a lost sequel, the Telegony, which was not written by Homer.
All these beliefs, from inheritance of acquired traits to telegony, must now be classed as superstitions.
Pre-natal culture and telegony were found to be mere delusions.
The idea of telegony, the persistent influence of the first mating, may be invoked to explain this discrepancy.
As Ritvo 1997 shows, belief in telegony was persistent through the end of the nineteenth century.

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