It is called telegony and is, briefly, this: that conception by a female results in a definite modification of her germ-plasm from the influence of the male, and that this modification will be shown in the offspring she may subsequently bear to a second male.    From Wordnik.com.  [Applied Eugenics] Reference

The same may be said as to the theory of telegony.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference

Pre-natal culture and telegony were found to be mere delusions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Applied Eugenics] Reference

In a systematic discussion of telegony before the Royal Medical Society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Osiander has noted telegony in relation to moral qualities of children by a second marriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

` ` But it is not only in relation to color that we find telegony to have been noticed in the human subject.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

And the condition, which supposes that the maternal organism is, so to speak, infected, by the male congress, is called telegony.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference

But if writer-director Jody Hill's second feature reveals the telegony of movies past, it's also very much - and this may be the most disturbing thing about it - a child of its time.    From Wordnik.com.  [California Chronicle] Reference

But if writer-director Jody Hill's second feature reveals the telegony of movies past, it's also very much -- and this may be the most disturbing thing about it -- a child of its time.    From Wordnik.com.  [California Chronicle] Reference

` ` We might expect from the foregoing account of telegony amongst animals that whenever a black woman had a child to a white man, and then married a black man, her subsequent children would not be entirely black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

"It would seem as though the Israelites had had some knowledge of telegony, for in Deuteronomy we find that when a man died leaving no issue, his wife was commanded to marry her husband's brother, in order that he might 'raise up seed to his brother.'".    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Edinburgh, on March 1, 1895, Brunton Blaikie, as a means of making the definition of telegony plainer by practical example, prefaced his remarks by citing the classic example which first drew the attention of the modern scientific world to this phenomenon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

` ` It would seem as though the Israelites had had some knowledge of telegony, for in Deuteronomy we find that when a man died leaving no issue, his wife was commanded to marry her husband's brother, in order that he might ` raise up seed to his brother. '' '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Unfortunately for the proof of telegony, it is very rare that a white woman does marry a black man, and then have a white as second husband; nevertheless, we have a fair number of recorded instances of dark-colored children being born in the above way of white parents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

In such a case as the one quoted, the explanation is undoubtedly that the supposed father is not the real one; and this explanation will dispose of all other cases of telegony which can not be explained, as in most instances they can be, by the mixed ancestry of the offspring and the innate tendency of all living things to vary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Applied Eugenics] Reference

In a systematic discussion of telegony before the Royal Medical Society, Edinburgh, on March 1, 1895, 2.170 Brunton Blaikie, as a means of making the definition of telegony plainer by practical example, prefaced his remarks by citing the classic example which first drew the attention of the modern scientific world to this phenomenon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Even science was influenced by the old sympathetic magic view that woman could be contaminated by the touch of any other man than her husband, for the principle of telegony, that the father of one child could pass on his characteristics to offspring by other fathers, lingered in biological teaching until the very recent discoveries of the physical basis of heredity in the chromosomes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family] Reference

"But it is not only in relation to color that we find telegony to have been noticed in the human subject.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

"We might expect from the foregoing account of telegony amongst animals that whenever a black woman had a child to a white man, and then married a black man, her subsequent children would not be entirely black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

For recent work on telegony see Ewart's.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

"Naturally," said I. "And that telegony is still sub judice?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost World] Reference

"Naturally," said I. "And that telegony is still sub judice?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost World] Reference