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Gemmule

noun
1.
The physically discrete element that Darwin proposed as responsible for heredity.





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... to produce the pine, the oak, the beech, the hickory—all of which we see springing directly from primordial germs to-day—than it did to produce the lowest vegetal organism, from an invisible, indestructible "vital unit," or Darwinian gemmule, ...
— Life: Its True Genesis • R. W. Wright


Words linked to "Gemmule" :   theory, possibility, hypothesis


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