In 1987, the high court said temporary and narrowly tailored quota systems were allowed. The case stemmed from an affirmative action plan that imposed a promotion standard of one black for one white in the Alabama state police ranks. The quota was justified, justices ruled, because of the department's long and shameful record of delay and resistance to black employment opportunities.
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August Weismann, in full August Friedrich Leopold Weismann, (born January 17, 1834, Frankfurt am Mainâdied November 5, 1914, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany), German biologist and one of the founders of the science of genetics, who is best known for his opposition to the doctrine of the inheritance of acquired traits and for his âgerm plasmâ theory, the forerunner of DNA theory.