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IN NATURE of November 21, Prof. E. W. MacBride states that ” Ordinary fluctuating variations which can be graphically represented on a curve of error are certainly not inherited”. He bases this statement on the work of Johannsen on pure lines of beans, and of Agar and Jennings on clones of Simocephalus and Paramecium. He does not mention the fact that Johannsen1 found clear evidence that such variations are inherited within a mixed population of beans.
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” Elemente der exakten Erblichkeitslehre”, p. 156 (1913).
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Z. indukt. Abstamm. u. Vererb., 66, 318 (1934).
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HALDANE, J. Natural Selection. Nature 138, 1053 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/1381053a0
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