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IF I have read Dr. Archdall Reid's letter in NATURE of October 31 aright, he draws a distinction between the study of heredity in general and the study of the problems of sexual reproduction, now defined as the problem of the function of sex (an expression with which I am perfectly contented). Among the problems of sex he includes the study of the actual transmission of characters as dealt with by Mendelians. The novelty of this classification is certainly attractive; but I find it difficult to understand what branches of knowledge remain to fall under the former head. In what does the study of heredity consist if not in the study of the transmission of characters from parents to offspring?
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LOCK, R. The Interpretation of Mendelian Phenomena. Nature 77, 32 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/077032a0
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