stirp

[ sturp ]

noun

, Anthropology.

1. a line of descendants from a common ancestor.

Word History and Origins

Origin of stirp¹

1495–1505; < Latin stirp- , stem of stirps stirps

Example Sentences

Kipling's stirring words, written of Queensland, find an echo in the hearts of Queenslanders— The northern stirp beneath the southern skies— I build a Nation for an Empire's need, Suffer a little, and my land shall rise, Queen over lands indeed!

From Project Gutenberg

On the other hand, the doctrine of continuity may be held in the widely different sense in which it has been presented by Galton's theory of Stirp.

From Project Gutenberg

But it was not till 1875 that the question was clearly presented to the general public by the independent thought of Mr. Galton, who was led to challenge the Lamarckian factors in toto by way of deduction from his theory of Stirp—the close resemblance of which to Professor Weismann's theory of Germ-plasm has been shown in my Examination of Weismannism.

From Project Gutenberg

For my own part, as stated in the Examination, I have always been disposed to accept Mr. Galton's theory of Stirp in preference to that of Germ-plasm on this very ground—i. e. that it does not dogmatically exclude the possibility of an occasional inheritance of acquired characters in faint though cumulative degrees.

From Project Gutenberg

In investigating Darwin's pangenesis, Galton's doctrine of the stirp, Naegeli's idioplasm, Weismann's germplasm, the intracellular pangenesis of De Vries, His' doctrinal of germinal foci for the formation of organs, or Roux's mosaic theory, I believe that one must face the question: How far do these doctrines agree with what we know about the structure and function of the cell?

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