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THIS little book originally appeared in the form of four lectures given at Princeton University in 1916. After three reprintings a new edition has been called for. The author has responded by revising the book and giving it a new title, breaking the contents up into thirteen chapters, including a new chapter (previously published elsewhere) on the non-inheritance of acquired characters, and another short chapter on human inheritance. It is an excellent discussion of evolutionary theory on the basis of the more recent discoveries in genetics and mutation. The case against the inheritance of acquired characters is very cogently stated.
Evolution and Genetics.
By Prof. Thomas Hunt Morgan. Pp. ix + 211. (Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1925.) 9s. net.
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GATES, R. Evolution and Genetics . Nature 117, 716 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117716b0
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