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IN a paper recently presented before the Eugenics Society, Dr. David Forsyth returns to that interminable argument ‘Heredity versus Environment’. By him, heredity is taken to imply transmission from one generation to another, this transmission comprising structural and functional tendencies to develop organic life. By environment he understands the conditions around an organism. He has been examining the commonly accepted view that heredity and environment play indispensable parts in development, and that each operates separately from the other, and now finds it quite impossible to entertain this view any longer.
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Heredity versus Environment. Nature 139, 768–769 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139768a0
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