Evolution by Mutation

Abstract

Students of Mendelian heredity have shown during the last seventeen years great reluctance in bringing their results to the bar of the evolutionary theory. They have hesitated, I think, because they felt that they had in hand a body of well-established information in regard to heredity which they did not want to compromise by applying to it the kind of procedure that in other fields of evolution is, even to-day, taken seriously.

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