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RECENT attendance at the discussions of the Institut International d'Embryologie and of the British Association (Section D) has impressed on me the desirability of offering—more especially to the younger generation of researchers in zoological science—a short statement of personal experience emphasizing certain general considerations, which are in my opinion useful as affording guidance along profitable lines of investigation and at the same time warning against dangerous pitfalls. I have been, in my time, responsible for a considerable number of new facts and theories relating, on one hand, to the evolutionary history of vertebrates and on the other to the general theory of evolution. I will not burden this note with bibliographical details, but refer anyone interested to my text-books on “Vertebrate Embryology” (Macmillan, 1919) and “Evolution” (Macmillan, 1926).
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KERR, J. Archaic Vertebrates and Evolutionary Principles. Nature 142, 1101–1104 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/1421101a0
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