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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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The curious phenomenon of telegony is not limited, however, to plants.
His experiments so far support the view of Continental mule breeders, that telegony, if it takes place, occurs very seldom.
As Ritvo 1997 shows, belief in telegony was persistent through the end of the nineteenth century.
This Telegony aside, the last 548 lines of the Odyssey, corresponding to Book 24, are believed by many scholars to have been added by a slightly later poet.
Pre-natal culture and telegony were found to be mere delusions.
The Odyssey has a lost sequel, the Telegony, which was not written by Homer.

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