Richard Semon

Richard Wolfgang Semon ( born August 22, 1859 in Berlin, † December 12, 1918 in Munich) was a German zoologist and evolutionary biologist. He took the view that acquired characteristics can be inherited, and turned it on social evolution. Semon was a founding member of the German Monist.

Semon suggested the term " mneme ", later research by Karl Lashley ( engram ) and Richard Dawkins (Mem ) influenced.

Works

  • In the Australian bush and on the shores of the Coral Sea. 1896; 2, verb. ed in 1903
  • The mneme as sustaining principle in the exchange of the organic action.. Leipzig, Engelmann, 1904 (5th edition 1920; engl: The mneme London: George Allen & Unwin, 1921. ).
  • The Engrammschatz of memory, in: Uwe Fleckner (ed.), treasuries, Mnemosyne, Dresden ( publisher of Art) 1995, 206-212
  • The mnemic sensations in their relations with the original sensations. Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1909; 2nd edition 1922
  • The problem of the inheritance of acquired characteristics. Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1912
  • Awareness process and brain process: a study of the energetic correlates of properties of sensations / after the death of the author edited by Otto Lubarsch. Wiesbaden: Verlag von J. F. Bergmann, 1920.
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