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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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Weismann does not absolutely deny the possibility of the existence of telegony, but he would like more evidence.
As Ritvo 1997 shows, belief in telegony was persistent through the end of the nineteenth century.
His experiments so far support the view of Continental mule breeders, that telegony, if it takes place, occurs very seldom.
Pre-natal culture and telegony were found to be mere delusions.
All these beliefs, from inheritance of acquired traits to telegony, must now be classed as superstitions.
The curious phenomenon of telegony is not limited, however, to plants.

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