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FOR some while past, as we all know, a great contest has been raging as to whether acquired characters of an organism can or cannot be transmitted from one generation to another; and mighty authorities, on the one side, say that they can be; and great authorities, on the other, aver that they cannot be.
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FRY, E. What are Acquired Characters?. Nature 51, 8–11 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/051008c0
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