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ALL biologists will, I am sure, agree as to the desirability of a thorough testing of the hypotheses relative to the inheritance of the effects of use and disuse. As Mr. Spencer says, in the preface to “The Factors of Organic Evolution”:—“considering the width and depth of the effects which acceptance of one or other of these hypotheses must have on our views of Life, Mind, Morals, and Politics, the question—Which of them is true? demands, beyond all other questions whatever, the attention of scientific men.”
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COLLINS, F. Heredity, and the Effects of Use and Disuse. Nature 41, 559 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/041559b0
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