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WE must all agree with Sir Edward Fry's desire to obtain a clear and exact definition of an “acquired character,” as this term has been used in the discussions upon hereditary transmissibility. I do not think, however, that those who have taken part in the various controversies and discussions which have raged intermittently during the last seven years, have been misled by the lack of a sufficiently exact definition or the multiplicity of inexact ones. I believe that both sides have known well enough the kind of character which was called acquired, even though no sufficiently clear definition was forthcoming. And it may be that this mutual understanding has tended to obscure the demand for a definition.
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POULTON, E. “Acquired Characters”. Nature 51, 55 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/051055a0
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