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THE last decade has witnessed many remarkable advances in our knowledge of heredity and variation. The beginning of the present century may be said to mark the turning-point between the observational method of Darwin and the more intensively experimental method now pursued in the study of evolution. This change from observation to experiment in evolutionary study was participated in by many investigators. Among those whose work will ever occupy a prominent place in the renaissance of activity in scientific plant- and animal-breeding may be mentioned de Vries, whose theory of mutation, or the sudden origin of new species, has been a fruitful subject of investigation and discussion.
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GATES, R. The Mutations of Oenothera . Nature 91, 647–648 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091647b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/091647b0