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.

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.

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?

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

The distinction is similar to that proposed by August Weismann, who distinguished between germ plasm ( heredity ) and somatic cells ( the body ).

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.

A sequestered germ line or Weismann barrier is specific to animals, and epigenetic inheritance is expected to be far more common in plants and microbes.

Max Weismann is an American philosopher and a long-time friend and colleague of Mortimer Adler, with whom he co-founded the Center for the Study of the Great Ideas in Chicago.

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

The Weismann barrier is the principle that hereditary information moves only from genes to body cells, and never in reverse.

The Weismann barrier is very important as it has implications for human gene therapy.

If the Weismann barrier is permeable, then genetic treatments of somatic cells may actually result in a heritable change to the genome, possibly resulting in the genetic engineering of the human species rather than just individuals.

Without further examples, the penetration of the Weismann barrier is still very much an exception.

The gearbox is proprietary and was developed by Weismann.

A useful macroscopic model that combines an electric field with DLA was developed by Niemeyer, Pietronero, and Weismann in 1984, and is known as the dielectric breakdown model ( DBM ).

The thread was later picked up by August Weismann in 1889, who argued that the purpose of sex was to generate genetic variation, as is detailed in the majority of the explanations below.

August Weismann proposed in 1889 an explanation for the evolution of sex, where the advantage of sex is the creation of variation among siblings.

In 1876 he suggested a hypothesis in explanation of heredity, resembling the germplasm theory subsequently elaborated by August Weismann, to the effect that the germinal protoplasm retains its specific properties from generation to generation, dividing in each reproduction into an ontogenetic portion, out of which the individual is built up, and a phylogenetic portion, which is reserved to form the reproductive material of the mature offspring.

He reevaluates August Weismann's model of the cell compartmentalization of somatic and germline cell lineages ( see Weismann barrier ), and argues that the vision of the individual taken by the modern synthesis is insufficient to explain the early evolution of development or ontogeny.

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

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.

Finally Mr. Weismann enters to greet his guests.

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.

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.

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

Weismann became the Director of the Zoological Institute and the first Professor of Zoology at Freiburg.

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

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.

He speaks your language too, for he is the grandson of a chieftain on Taui who made much magic and was strong and cunning.

There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.

since Bourbon whiskey, though of Kentucky origin, is at least as much favored by liberals in the North as by conservatives in the South.

My definition of this much abused adjective is that a reconstructed rebel is one who is glad that the North won the War.

There is much truth in both these charges, and not many Bourbons deny them.

The enormous changes in world politics have, however, thrown it into confusion, so much so that it is safe to say that all international law is now in need of reexamination and clarification in light of the social conditions of the present era.

Ratified in the Republican Party victory in 1952, the Positive State is now evidenced by political campaigns being waged not on whether but on how much social legislation there should be.

In spots such as the elbows and knees the second skin is worn off and I realized the aborigines were much darker than they appeared ; ;

from downstream, where the water level is much lower, it is a high, elaborately facaded pavilion.

The fact is that the Southern Confederacy differed from the earlier one almost as much as the Federal Constitution did.

It is much less difficult now than in Lincoln's day to see that on both sides sovereign Americans had given their lives in the Civil War to maintain the balance between the powers they had delegated to the States and to their Union.

We are desperately in the need of such invention, for man is still very much at the mercy of man.

the mill-pond is quiet, its surface dark and shadowed, and there does not seem to be much water in it.

Professionally a lawyer, that is to say associated with dignity, reserve, discipline, with much that is essentially middle-class, he is compelled by an impossible love to exhibit himself dressed up, disguised -- that is, paradoxically, revealed -- as a child, and, worse, as a whore masquerading as a child.

And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.