Given money, and influential patronage, the vivisector now expects a time after his own heart, while professedly engaged in investigating the supposed causes of cancer, or the transmissibility of tuberculosis.
Darwin also regarded this Lamarckian principle, as it is now generally called, as a factor in evolution, but he was not fully convinced of the transmissibility of acquired characters.
After having been affirmed as a dogma, the transmissibility of acquired characters has been no less dogmatically denied, for reasons drawn a priori from the supposed nature of germinal cells.
We are not going to enter here into the controversies over the transmissibility of acquired characters; still less do we wish to take too definite a side on this question, which is not within our province.
As shown further back in the text, Darwin had carefully considered the case of mutilations, and explained that their non-transmissibility constitutes no valid objection to his theory of pangenesis.
We have already seen that before the subject was taken up by Weismann the difference between acquired and congenital characters in respect to transmissibility was generally taken to be one of degree; not one of kind.
We have now considered the line of evidence on which Darwin chiefly relied in proof of the transmissibility of acquired characters; and it must be allowed that this line of evidence is practically worthless.
Although Darwin did not believe in the transmissibility of mutilations when these consist merely in the amputation of parts of an organism, he did believe in a probable tendency to transmission when removal of the part is followed by gangrene.
A few years ago they would have thought the cessation of selection a very unimportant principle, and one which could not possibly sustain any such large question as that of the transmissibility of acquired character.
On the one hand, Weismann has rejected the Lamarckian factors,--the effect of use and disuse upon organs, and the transmissibility of acquired characters.
This accounts for the slow transmissibility of the disease from one animal to another.
Because a parent dies before the development of the trait does not preclude its transmissibility to his offspring.
But Weismann's argument rests not merely upon any difficulty or impossibility of the transmissibility of acquired characteristics.
The so-called Neo-Lamarckian school believes in the transmissibility of acquired characteristics, and of at least particular effects of use and disuse.
The importance of use and disuse, and the transmissibility of their effects, would seem to supply a factor essential to evolution.
Moreover, the non-transmissibility cuts both ways: if individual modificational gains are not handed on, neither are the losses.
But in order to do this evidence justice, I shall have to take a new point of departure and consider as a separate question the transmissibility of acquired characters.
But Spencer advanced an a priori argument to strengthen the position which he felt bound to hold--the transmissibility of acquired characters.
But, our entire conception as to the hereditary transmissibility of insanity has undergone a radical change.
At the present day hardly a bacteriological journal is published which does not contain some reference to the question of tuberculosis and milk, and the transmissibility of this disease when present in cattle to man.
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