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WEISMANN'S theories of heredity and sexual reproduction have been criticized from many a priori points of view. The following remarks are an attempt to apply to his theory of reproduction a test familiar to the mathematician; and assuming its truth, to follow out the deductions from this assumption. The result is a startling one I believe the following theses will be accepted as an impartial statement of the main points of the theory:—
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HARTOG, M. A Difficulty in Weismannism. Nature 44, 613–614 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/044613c0
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