RT Journal
T1 BErlin
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD July 27
VO 93
IS 4
SP 317
OP 318
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02710040069025
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02710040069025
AB The Theory of Heredity in Relation to Biology 
    Professor Goldschmidt recently delivered, before the Internationale Gesellschaft für empirische Philosophie, which is directed by the clinician Prof. F. Kraus, an address on the theory of hereditary transmission and theoretical biology. He is department director at the Kaiser Wilhelm-Institut für Biologie in Dahlem, near Berlin, and is well known by reason of his researches on hereditary processes. In his address, Goldschmidt set up against mendelism, which deals with the distribution of hereditary qualities to the succeeding generations and which he described as a static theory of hereditary transmission, a dynamic theory of transmission, which inquires what processes must unfold in order that the phenomenon termed vererbung, or hereditary transmission, may occur. Hitherto, the only definitely recognized precipitating cause of these unfolding processes, which are the expression of units or so-called systems, was the "gene." This gene, or the invisible hereditary germinal factor,