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The Inheritance of Acquired Characters

Nature volume 130, page 20 (1932)Cite this article

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PROF. MACBRIDE'S criticism1 of my lecture on the inheritance of acquired characters falls into three parts. He claims that I have misinterpreted Lamarck, that certain experiments demonstrate the transmission to the offspring of characters acquired as the result of a change of environment, and finally that this latter principle can be inferred from other facts, apart from the results of any experiment.

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  1. NATURE, 129, 900, June 18, 1932.

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    J. B. S. HALDANE

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HALDANE, J. The Inheritance of Acquired Characters. Nature 130, 20 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130020b0

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