telegony

English

telegony (uncountable)

The belief that, in the case of siblings from the same mother but different fathers, the second sibling could inherit characteristics from the father of the first.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
  "And that telegony is still sub judice?" "Undoubtedly." "And that the germ plasm is different from the parthenogenetic egg?" "Why, surely!" I cried, and gloried in my own audacity.

inheritance of the characteristics of a non-biological father

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