Former Weismann performers at the reunion include Max and Stella Deems, who lost their radio jobs and became store owners in Miami ; Solange La Fitte, a coquette, who is still vibrant three decades later ; Hattie Walker, who has outlived five younger husbands ; Vincent and Vanessa, former dancers who now own an Arthur Murray franchise ; Heidi Schiller, for whom Franz Lehár once wrote a waltz ( or was it Oscar Straus?

The term Darwinism had covered a wide range of ideas, many of which differed from Darwin's views, but it became associated with the minority view of August Weismann who went further than Darwin by rejecting inheritance of acquired characters and attributing all evolution to natural selection, a view also called neo-Darwinism.

Weismann serves as chairman of the Great Books Academy ( over 3000 students ) and is a Fellow at the Adler-Aquinas Institute.

Daniels is a contributing editor to City Journal, published by the Manhattan Institute, where he is the Dietrich Weismann Fellow.

Sally Durant Plummer, " blond, petite, sweet-faced " and at 49 " still remarkably like the girl she was thirty years ago ", a former Weismann girl is the first guest to arrive ; her ghostly youthful counterpart moves towards her.

Weismann was one of the first biologists to deny soft inheritance entirely.

The term germ plasm was first used by the German biologist August Weismann ( 1834 – 1914 ).

The " Alexanderlied " with German translation was first edited by Heinrich Weismann ( 2 vols., Frankfurt, 1850 ); the best edition is by Karl Kinzel in " Germanistische Handbibliothek ", ed.

Suddenly, at the peak of madness and confusion, the couples are engulfed by their follies, which transform the rundown theatre into a fantastical " Loveland ", an extravaganza even more grand and opulent than the gaudiest Weismann confection: " the place where lovers are always young and beautiful, and everyone lives only for love ".

Weismann realised that the cells that produce the germ plasm, or gametes ( such as sperm and egg in animals ), separate from the somatic cells that go on to make other body tissues at an early stage in development.

Immediately after university, Weismann took on a post as assistant at the Städtische Klinik ( city clinic ) in Rostock.

* An examination of Weismannism ( 1893 ) ( August Weismann was the leading evolutionary theoretician at the turn of the 19th century )

He began to study medicine in 1886 under August Weismann at the University of Freiburg.

After Huxley the most important influence on his thought was August Weismann, the German zoologist who rejected Lamarkism, and wholeheartedly advocated natural selection as the key force in evolution at a time when other biologists had doubts.

Weismann ’ s developmental concept was based on a mistaken interpretation of an 1882 experiment carried about by Wilhelm Roux, in which Roux killed one of the cells of a frog embryo at the two-cell stage.

Commercial brewing at its location began in 1681 when Michael Weismann purchased the property from the Monastery of Kremsmünster.

In 1873, August Weismann postulated the equivalence of the maternal and paternal germ cells for heredity.

The strict neo-Darwinism of August Weismann gained few supporters in the late 19th century.

The origins of the concept of eugenics began with certain interpretations of Mendelian inheritance, and the theories of August Weismann.

On the soon-to-be demolished stage of the Weismann Theatre, a reunion is being held to honor Weismann's " Follies " shows past, and the beautiful chorus girls who once performed there.

Finally Mr. Weismann enters to greet his guests.

For the safety of gene therapy, the Weismann barrier is fundamental in the current thinking.

However, there are indications that the Weismann barrier can be breached.

The inheritance of acquired traits was shown to have little basis in the 1880s when August Weismann cut the tails off many generations of mice and found that their offspring continued to develop tails.

* 1834 – August Weismann, German biologist ( d. 1914 )

* UCLA DIS 245 " Info Access " Wiki on Reference Services, edited by John V. Richardson Jr. and Debbie Weismann

The significance of meiosis for reproduction and inheritance, however, was described only in 1890 by German biologist August Weismann, who noted that two cell divisions were necessary to transform one diploid cell into four haploid cells if the number of chromosomes had to be maintained.

The minority view of August Weismann, that natural selection was the only mechanism, was called neo-Darwinism.

As part of the disagreement about whether natural selection alone was sufficient to explain speciation, George Romanes coined the term neo-Darwinism to refer to the version of evolution advocated by Alfred Russel Wallace and August Weismann with its heavy dependence on natural selection.

Weismann and Wallace rejected the Lamarckian idea of inheritance of acquired characteristics, something that Darwin had not ruled out.

Friedrich Leopold August Weismann ( 17 January 1834 – 5 November 1914 ) was a German evolutionary biologist.

This is referred to as the Weismann barrier.

The idea of the Weismann barrier is central to the Modern evolutionary synthesis, though it is not expressed today in the same terms.

Weismann's ideas preceded the rediscovery of Gregor Mendel's work, and though Weismann was cagey about accepting Mendelism, younger workers soon made the connection.

Weismann is much admired today.

In an article on anti-CND groups, Steve Dorril reported that in 1982 Eugene V. Rostow, Director of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, became concerned about the growing unilateralist movement.

In 2004, she became the first American woman to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, for Lost in Translation.

Capra became one of America's most powerful directors during the 1930s, winning three Oscars as Best Director.

It Happened One Night ( 1934 ) became the first film to win all five top Oscars ( Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay ).

") In 1925 he became Director of the Academy, and from 1927 to 1931 its Rector.

In 1885, he became professor of hygiene at the University of Berlin, then in 1891 he was made Honorary Professor of the medical faculty and Director of the new Prussian Institute for Infectious Diseases ( eventually renamed as the Robert Koch Institute ), a position from which he resigned in 1904.

The prominent French socialist Albert Thomas became its first Director General.

In 1943 Stillman left for war work and Gode became Acting Director of Research.

Dalglish became Director of Football at Blackburn in June 1995.

In October 1925, Mao became acting Propaganda Director of the Kuomintang.

An initial application for Film Commission money was rejected, ironically by Executive Director Jim Booth, who a short time later became Jackson's producer.

When Al Posen originated the idea of National Cartoonists Society tours to entertain American servicemen, he became the NCS Director of Overseas Shows.

He also founded at the university the Rockefeller-funded Institute of Economics in 1932 and became its Director of Research.

Traffic became his most acclaimed movie since Sex, Lies, and Videotape, and earned him an Academy Award for Best Director.

In September 1986, Square spun off from Den-Yu-Sha and became an independent company officially named Square Co., Ltd. Sakaguchi then became a full-time employee as the Director of Planning and Development of the company.

In 1996, he was promoted and subsequently became Director General of the Directorate for the Nuclear Power ( DG NP ).

Following the defeat of the Kirner government by the Liberal leader Jeff Kennett in late 1992, Bracks became Executive Director of the Victorian Printing Industry Training Board.

Mulder and Scully's boss, Assistant Director Walter Skinner ( Mitch Pileggi ), also became a central character.

He became organist of the Octagon Chapel, Bath, a fashionable chapel in a well-known spa, in which town he was also Director of Public Concerts.

Once Zhu Di deposed Jianwen and became crowned as Yongle Emperor ( r. 1403-1424 ), Zheng He continued serving in his court as a Eunuch Grand Director ( 太監, tàijiàn ).

In 1936 the Radiation Laboratory became an official department of the University of California with Lawrence formally appointed its Director.

In 1991, he returned to UC-Berkeley as Professor of Mathematics and in 1993 became Director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute.

In 1985, he became Managing Director.

The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for whom the top award given by the broadcast news directors organization Radio Television Digital News Association ( RTDNA ) is named, Kent Cooper, who later became the longtime GM of rival Associated Press, early ABC News president Elmer Lower, Raymond Clapper, originator of the term " smoked-filled room ", Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Martha Gellhorn, Kate Webb, Henry Tilton Gorrell, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, author H. Allen Smith, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns, 1970s White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron Nessen and Larry Speakes, longtime Las Vegas bureau manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, former UP correspondent to Moscow Eugene Lyons, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, 1980's-90's Singapore President Wee Kim Wee and novelists Allen Drury, Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva.