Das Problem der Vererbung "erworbener Eigenschaften"

Semon, Richard Wolfgang [1859-1918]

Verlag: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1912

Beschreibung

24x16cm, viii,203 pages, Pencilled marginal marks and underlinings throughout text. Binder's half-leather. Edges rubbed. Spine faded. Worn. Good. [""Semon was a German zoologist, explorer, evolutionary biologist, a memory researcher who believed in the inheritance of acquired characteristics and applied this to social evolution. He is known for coining the terms engram and ecphory. .,.Semon proposed psycho-physiological parallelism according to which every psychological state corresponds to alterations in the nerves. His ideas of the mneme (based on the Greek goddess, Mneme, the muse of memory) were developed early in the 20th century. The mneme represented the memory of an external-to-internal experience. The resulting "mnemic trace" (or "engram") would be revived when an element resembling a component of the original complex of stimuli was encountered. Semon s mnemic principle was based upon how stimuli produce a "permanent record, written or engraved on the irritable substance", i.e. upon cellular material energetically predisposed to such inscription. ., Semon argued not only that information is encoded into memory and that there are 'memory traces' (engrams) or after-effects of stimulation that conserve the changes in the nervous system, he also contended that these changes in the brain (that is, engrams) are inherited. Semon's mneme-theory fell into disrepute largely because in a Lamarckian fashion it proposed that memory units are passed from one generation to another. Semon was a proponent of the theory of organic memory, which was popular amongst biologists and psychologists from 1870 to 1918. The theory later lost scientific legitimacy as it yielded no reliable data and advances in genetics made the theory untenable" - wikipedia]. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 026862

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Titel: Das Problem der Vererbung "erworbener ...

Verlag: Wilhelm Engelmann

Erscheinungsdatum: 1912

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good