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I AM much obliged to you for letting me see Mr. Hogben's most interesting letter, and I thank him for emphasising the fact that the mutants of the experimental breeder do not show such recapitulatory phenomena as do the mutations of the palæontologist. Since this point was dealt with, however imperfectly, in the address, I surmise that Mr. Hogben has considered only the extract published in NATURE. His statement of “the final step in the argument for evolution” appears to me consequent, but I am not yet prepared to admit that my statement was inconsequent. Neither, I fear, is absolutely conclusive. Consequent or inconsequent, I did my best to view the problem without prejudice or emotion, but I plead guilty to some attempt at humour.
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BATHER, F. Recapitulation and Descent. Nature 106, 213 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106213a0
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