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THE study of size-inheritance is beset with difficutties which do not attend the study of qualitative differences involving colour and form. Students of genetics have stated size-inheritance in various plants and animals in terms of multiple size factors segregating independently in the Mendelian fashion; but the universal presence of fluctuations which obscure the quantitative effects of separate factors, as well as other difficulties, have prevented the study of size factors being in the same satisfactory condition as that of the factors which control sharply marked qualitative characters.
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The Inheritance of Size. Nature 110, 463 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110463a0
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