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>DNAunion:
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>Charles Darwin, from the "Origin of Species":
>
>"From the facts alluded to in the first chapter, I think there can be no
>doubt that use in our domestic animals has strengthened and enlarged certain
>parts, and disuse diminished them; and that such modifications are inherited."
>
>"The evidence that accidental mutilations can be inherited is at present not
>decisive; but the remarkable cases observed by Brown-Sequard in guinea pigs,
>of the inherited effects of operations, should make us cautious in denying
>this tendency."
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>"I say within a dozen or twenty generations, for no instance is known of
>crossed descendants reverting to an ancestor of foreign blood, removed by a
>greater number of generations. In a breed which has been crossed only once,
>the tendency to revert to any character derived from such a cross will
>naturally become less and less, as in each succeeding generations there will
>less of the foreign blood…"
I'm not sure why you posted these interesting quotes. They seem to depict a
Darwin sadly deprived of knowledge about genetics. After Darwin's death
Mendel's paper was found unopened in his study.
Susan
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