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IN his communication of November 28 (NATURE, December 3, p. 102), Prof. Hartog asks us to believe that Weismann, in a letter from which he quotes, insists (1) that the Ahnenplasmas are “not completely unchangeable,” and (2) that “each Ahnenplasma unit corresponds to an individual of the species itself; and if put under suitable trophic conditions would, singly, reproduce such an individual.”
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TROW, A. A Difficulty in Weismannism. Nature 45, 175–176 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/045175b0
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