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PROF. WARREN'S most interesting letter in NATURE of September 12 on the subject of spiders concludes with the challenging remark that βIt would be obviously absurd to suppose that the mechanism of heredity differs fundamentally in certain spiders from that in other organisms.β Why absurd? Spiders belong to a line of evolution remote from the mammals, for example, and a line which obviously "stuck"; and may this not be because its mechanism of heredity was not entirely satisfactory? Other lines carried on to the higher groups, and may it not be just because mammals possess a somewhat different and more useful mechanism for their heredity?
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STOPES, M. [Letters to Editor]. Nature 116, 499 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116499b0
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