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MR. R. H. LOCK, in his recent book on “Variation, Heredity, and Evolution” (reviewed in NATURE of April 27), has, in common with many other writers, adduced the phenomenon of eye transposition in flat-fishes as a cogent argument in favour of the transmission of acquired characters, remarking that “an alternative hypothesis is lacking.” I venture to dispute this position, believing it to be decided evidence in support of the potency of natural selection to accumulate small mutations. I quote a part of the passage (p. 35) that my argument may be the better understood:—
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HAWKES, A. Eye Migration in Flat-fishes and Lamarckianism. Nature 76, 79 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/076079a0
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