title: Commentary: Before Weismann and germplasm there was Galton and eugenics: the biological and political meaning of the inheritance of acquired characteristics in the late 19th century.
authors.affiliation: Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA rcowan@sas.upenn.edu.
authors.forename: Ruth Schwartz
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Cowan
mesh_terms: D030541:Databases, Genetic; D005053:Eugenics; D040941:Heredity; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans