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IT surprises me to find that anyone who has looked into the evidence can doubt that acquired characters, as distinct from congenital ones, may, like congenital characters, become hereditary, and produce physiological effects. The instance mentioned in Herbert Spencer's letter in NATURE (vol. xli. p. 511), of domestic varieties of animals losing the power of erecting the ears, appears as nearly conclusive on the subject as such an instance can be.
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MURPHY, J. The Inheritance of Acquired Characters. Nature 42, 5–6 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/042005b0
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