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DURING the past twenty years I have made several contributions to the evidence in favour of the chromosome theory of heredity, the last in 1926. I am not nearly so sure as I was of the universal validity of that theory, and I hope that even in my callow youth I was never so dogmatic about it as is Prof. J. S. Huxley in his review of Prof. Noël Paton's book (NATURE, Dec. 25, p. 902). I feel that some protest should be made lest the constant repetition of certain dogmatic statements by Prof. Huxley and others of the same school should lead to a general belief that these statements represent proven facts accepted by all biologists who are familiar with this particular branch of knowledge.
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WALKER, C. Biological Fact and Theory. Nature 119, 161 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119161a0
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