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IT is difficult to understand how anyone well acquainted with Darwin's works can come to any other conclusion than that he firmly believed in Lamarck's principle of the transmission of characters acquired by use.
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PARKYN, E. Darwin and the Transmission of Acquired Characters. Nature 85, 474 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/085474b0
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