See also: Télégonie

The télégonie (of the Greek Τηλέ / têlé , “far, remotely”, and γονος / gonos , “birth”) is today a Hypothèse pre mendélienne abandoned of sciences of the Hérédité. One also speaks about “impregnation of the father”.

It supposes the existence of a durable influence of the characteristics of the first male on all the later descendants of a female, even those resulting from other males. She was regarded a long time as an experimental truth, in particular in the species innate Cheval, before being refuted in 1902 by the joists of Miss Barthelet, then definitively abandoned in the Années 1930.

See too

• Heredity.