He recounted how Lord Morton's mare apparently demonstrated telegony, offspring inheriting characteristics of a previous mate of the female parent, and accepted this process as increasing the variation available for natural selection.
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Both Schopenhauer and Herbert Spencer found telegony to be a credible theory; August Weismann, on the other hand, had expressed doubts about the theory earlier and it fell out of scientific favor in the 1890s.
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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.
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She has stated her support for fringe views such as telegony, which led the founding editor of the business newspaper " Vedomosti " to interpret her appointment as a sign that Russian President Vladimir Putin was becoming more ideological.
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The supposed last poem in the Epic Cycle is called the " Telegony " and is thought to tell the story of Odysseus's last voyage, and of his death at the hands of Telegonus, his son with Circe.
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The concept of telegony, that the seed of a male could continue to affect the offspring of a female, whether animal or human, had been inherited from Aristotle and remained a legitimate theory until experiments in the 1890s confirmed Mendelian inheritance.
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Zorses were bred by the US Government and reported in " Genetics in Relation to Agriculture " by E . B . Babcock and R . E . Clausen ( early 20th century ), in an attempt to investigate inheritance and telegony.
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The brief fertilizing mystical union engenders Dionysus, and doubled unions, of a god and of a mortal man on one night, result, through telegony, in the semi-divine nature of Greek heroes such as Theseus and Heracles among others.
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These circumstantial reports seemed to confirm the ancient idea of telegony in heritability : Charles Darwin cited the example in " On the Origin of Species " ( 1859 ) and " The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication " ( 1868 ).
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A third possibility is that there was a wholly separate epic called the " Thesprotis "; and yet a fourth possibility is that the " Telegony " and " Thesprotis " were two separate poems that were at some stage compiled into a single " Telegony ".
