Hypothesis that an organism can pass on characteristics that it has acquired through use or disuse during its lifetime to its offspring

The case of the midwife toad / Arthur Koestler.

Hormones, heredity, and race : spectacular failure in interwar Vienna / Cheryl A. Logan.

The problem of the inheritance of acquired characters : a history of a priori and empirical methods used to find a solution = Problema nasledovaniya priobremennykh priznakov istoriya apriornykh i empiricheskikh popitok ee resheniya / L.I. Blacher ; English translation edited by F.B. Churchill.

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Inheritance of acquired characters

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The case of the midwife toad / Arthur Koestler.

Hormones, heredity, and race : spectacular failure in interwar Vienna / Cheryl A. Logan.

The problem of the inheritance of acquired characters : a history of a priori and empirical methods used to find a solution = Problema nasledovaniya priobremennykh priznakov istoriya apriornykh i empiricheskikh popitok ee resheniya / L.I. Blacher ; English translation edited by F.B. Churchill.