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THE Duke of Argyll supports his assertion that “all organs do actually pass through rudimentary stages in which actual use is impossible” by reference to the stages of embryonic growth. Surely the assertion remains merely an empty repetition of the Darwinian position that the development of the embryo summarizes the morphological history of the race.
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DICKINS, F. Acquired Characters and Congenital Variation. Nature 41, 316 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/041316a0
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