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IN a recent article1, I have argued that viruses and what I call plasmagenes2 are derived from cell proteins. On my view, these undifferentiated proteins may come to acquire the properties either of infection or, alternatively, of inheritance, by processes of adaptation which I attempted to describe. I also represented these processes in a diagram (Fig. 3) in which arrows showed the conceivable and, to me, probable directions of evolutionary change.
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DARLINGTON, C. Paracrinkle Virus and Inheritance. Nature 154, 489 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154489a0
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