Osiander has noted telegony in relation to moral qualities of children by a second marriage.
But it is not only in relation to color that we findtelegony to have been noticed in the human subject.
The belief in the power of a sire to influence subsequent generations, or telegonyas it is sometimes called, is not uncommon even to-day.
Until we have evidence based upon experiments which are capable of {168} repetition, we may safely ignore telegony as a factor in heredity.
The above is the record of the successful experiments which have been tried at Penycuik, with a view of throwing light on the existence of telegony in the Equidae.
Darwin, however, latterly came to the conclusion that telegony only occurred rarely, and some years before his death expressed the opinion that it was "a very occasional phenomenon.
In the Contemporary Review he writes, "I must say that to this day, and in spite of the additional cases brought forward by Spencer and Romanes, I do not consider that telegony has been proved.
The present state of the matter may be summed up in the professor's own words: "The experiments, as far as they have gone, afford no evidence in support of the telegony hypothesis.
Throughout his account of his experiments Professor Ewart is extremely cautious in claiming to prove anything, but we think he has justified his claim to have shown that telegony by no means always occurs, as many breeders believe.
If telegony be true, there is no need to look further for a clear case of the inheritance of a character which has been acquired during the lifetime of the parent.
Moreover, it has been pointed out that the stripes on the legs of the two foals alleged to show telegony could not have been derived from the quagga sire for, unlike zebras, quaggas did not have their legs striped.
Although his experiments have been devised so as to conduce in every way possible to telegony his results have been negative.
Pre-natal culture and telegonywere found to be mere delusions.
Telegony is still believed by many animal breeders, but it has no place in science.
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