His results that surgically removing a mouse's tail had no effect on the tail of its offspring challenged the theories of pangenesis and Lamarckism, which held that changes to an organism during its lifetime could be inherited by its descendants.
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In 1889, Dutch botanist Hugo de Vries published his book " Intracellular Pangenesis ", in which he postulated that different characters have different hereditary carriers, based on a modified version of Charles Darwin's theory of Pangenesis of 1868.
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In 1889, Dutch botanist Hugo de Vries published his book " Intracellular Pangenesis ", in which he postulated that different characters have different hereditary carriers, based on a modified version of Charles Darwin's theory of Pangenesis of 1868.
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Darwin challenged the validity of Galton's experiment, giving his reasons in an article published in'Nature'where he wrote : " Now, in the chapter on Pangenesis in my " Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication,"
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Darwin called his Lamarckian hypothesis pangenesis, and explained it in the final chapter of his book " The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication " ( 1868 ), after describing numerous examples to demonstrate what he considered to be the inheritance of acquired characteristics.
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:" As Darwin explained it, pangenesis was the highly abstract notion that every tissue, cell and living part of an organism produced minute, unseen gemmules ( or what he sometimes called granules or germs ) which carried inheritable characteristics and were transmitted to the offspring via the reproductive process.
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Pangenesis, which he emphasised was a hypothesis, was based on the idea that somatic cells would, in response to environmental stimulation ( use and disuse ), throw off'Nature ", that he had done nothing of the sort, since he had never mentioned blood in his writings.
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:: True to an extent, but a lot of Darwin's'confusion'and'errors', such as with pangenesis, came about largely in his attempt to respond to critics, and make allowances and corrections for'problems'that had been identified with his original work.
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Although this was three years before Wilhelm Johannsen used the word " gene " to describe the units of hereditary information, De Vries had introduced the word " pangene " for the same concept already in 1889, and etymologically the word " genetics " has parallels with Darwin's concept of pangenesis.
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Darwin avoided a direct confrontation ( as well in the case of chronology ), but confessed that some of Jenkin's arguments were troubling so troubling, in fact, that Darwin largely abandoned blending inheritance as the potential mechanism for his own inheritance model, pangenesis, in favor of a competing model of inheritance that derived from Lamarckism.
