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MR. CUNNINGHAM writes (NATURE, February 24, p. 828): “It is a mere matter of terms and synonyms. The modern biologist would say that the normal hand was hereditary, or innate, or due to certain factors or genes in the chromosomes which usually are handed on unchanged ‘down the germ-tract’; that the sixth digit was a mutation, due to some change in the genes in the chromosomes, and therefore gametogenic; and that the scar was due to an injury which resulted in regenerative processes producing new tissue . . . Sir Bryan Donkin writes that like exactly begets like when parent and child develop under like conditions; if we say, then, that the differences due to unlike conditions are acquired characters, what is the objection?”
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REID, G. Biological Terminology. Nature 107, 265–267 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107265c0
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