泛生论 (英文:pangenesis) 是由进化论之父，达尔文所提出的另一种由父母遗传至儿女的方法。跟进化论截然不同的是，进化论是由基因经过多代的塞选而繁衍出来的。泛生论却是直接由动植物的父母透过身体细胞所分泌出来的一种为gemmules的细胞而直接对儿女造成影响。达尔文试图以此论点来解释为何动植物的上一代和下一代会有除了基因方面以外的类似习性，例如习惯，脾气，身形等。但是后来以科学实验证明此观点是错误的。因为部分的动物，天性并不单单是与生俱来的，部分可以是后天习得的。

Pangenesis was Charles Darwin's hypothetical mechanism for heredity. He presented this 'provisional hypothesis' in his 1868 work The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication and felt that it brought 'together a multitude of facts which are at present left disconnected by any efficient cause'. The etymology of the word comes from the Greek words pan (a prefix meaning "whole", "encompassing") and genesis ("birth") or genos ("origin"). The hypothesis was eventually replaced by Mendel's laws of inheritance.