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DR. BATESON, in a letter to NATURE of June 2, raises the very interesting point as to whether the appearances alleged to be “nuptial pads” in Alytes obstetricans are really such. Whatever their nature, they are undoubtedly organised structures; and if they should prove not to be “nuptial pads,” they will have to be regarded as a new and arbitrary feature which has appeared after subjection to an experimentally altered environment for two or three generations, and which persists for at least a few generations after a return to normal conditions. In other words, it would seem that Dr. Kammerer has had success in an experiment which is almost analogous to those ancient researches in which was attempted the reproduction by hereditary means of a surgically impressed modification.
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PERKINS, M. Breeding Experiments on the Inheritance of Acquired Characters. Nature 112, 238 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112238a0
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