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IT has recently been suggested that acquired characters are transmitted by a kind of memory in the germ-plasm. If this suggestion were adopted, would it not enable us to explain the non-transmission of mutilations?
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EGERTON, H. Memory in the Germ-Plasm. Nature 78, 570 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/078570a0
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