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IN reply to the letter of Dr. Walker on Alytes which appears in NATURE of June 14, he is right in saying that I assume that potentialities of growth are altered by the environment and that the result is handed on to succeeding generations. Proof that it is so exists and could be given in detail were not space in NATURE so precious. Przibram gave five or six such cases when he was in London two years ago.
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MACBRIDE, E. The Acquired Characters of Alytes. Nature 126, 59 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126059e0
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