[1]: 37–39 Toward the end of the nineteenth century, E. S. Talbot claimed that aposthia among Jews was evidence for the now-discredited Lamarckian theory of evolution.

[2] In his work The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Charles Darwin also mentioned cases of "born circumcised" babies as "conclusive evidence"[3] for the now-discredited blending inheritance.

The book Abot De-Rabbi Natan (The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan) contains a list of persons from the Israelite Scriptures that were "born circumcised": Adam, Seth, Noah, Shem, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, the wicked Balaam, Samuel, David, Jeremiah and Zerubbabel.

[citation needed] R. Elazar Hakappar said that the school of Shamai and Hillel do not differ as to a boy that is born without a foreskin.

[citation needed] Lazarus Long, principal protagonist in several of Robert Heinlein's novels, was born aposthic.