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ALMOST a quarter of a century has passed since I commenced to examine the inheritance of certain breeding- and colour-adaptations which I had obtained with amphibia and reptiles. I did. not expect, in relatively so short a time, to obtain positive results, and, moreover, I was then well under the spell of Weismannism and Mendelism, which both agree that somatic characters are not inherited.
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KAMMERER, P. Breeding Experiments on the Inheritance of Acquired Characters. Nature 111, 637–640 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111637a0
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