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UNDER the title “Perigenesis der Plastidule oder die Wellenzeugung der Lebenstheilchen,” Prof. Haeckel has published quite recently a pamphlet containing an attempt to furnish a mechanical explanation of the elementary phenomena of reproduction which shall be more satisfactory than Mr. Darwin's ingenious and well-known theory of Pangenesis. I shall endeavour to show that Prof. Haeckel's theory is essentially that with which both English and German students of Mr. Herbert Spencer's works have long been familiar; and that it does not furnish a clearer explanation than does Mr. Darwin's Pangenesis, of the special facts of heredity which Mr. Darwin had in view.
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LANKESTER, E. Perigenesis v. Pangenesis—Haeckel's New Theory of Heredity . Nature 14, 235–238 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/014235a0
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