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PROF. MACBRIDE has contributed a chapter to a volume of essays published by Messrs. Blackie and Son which professes to treat of evolution “in the light of modern knowledge”. Prof. MacBride's chapter is headed “Zoology” and sets forth a statement of older as well as novel observations and experiments made by other workers which lead him to conclude that the evolution of organic form in plants and animals has been caused—mainly if not entirely—by “use and disuse”, as held by Lamarck—not in the light of modern knowledge—but more than one hundred years ago.
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LANKESTER, E. The Blindness of Cave-Animals. Nature 116, 745–746 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116745a0
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