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IN a stimulating article in NATURE of June 29, p. 982, Sir Oliver Lodge makes the following statement: "We know, however, that [germ-plasm] is modifiable by slight changes in environment." Apart from the question whether we can in reality separate germ-plasm from soma, and excluding cases of injury, I suggest that we do not know this. Do we even know for certain that the soma itself can be changed?
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LOWNDES, A. The Origin of Variations. Nature 124, 129 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124129a0
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