EACH person who assails this unfortunate “provisional hypo thesis” makes the attack from his own particular point of view. Thus, in NATURE of last week Prof. L. S. Beale, as a microscopist ...

Darwin honestly had no idea. So he rashly, and uncharacteristically, made up a speculative theory called “pangenesis.” Darwin surmised that all organs of the body give off particles called ...

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