Are the effects of use and disuse inherited? : an examination of the view held by Spencer and Darwin / William Paul Ball.

William Platt Ball

Date:: 1890

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Credit: Are the effects of use and disuse inherited? : an examination of the view held by Spencer and Darwin / William Paul Ball. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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CONTENTS. xi PAGE A Source of Mental Confusion ...... 91 Weakness of Use-Inheritance . 94 INHERITED INJURIES . . . . .101—118 Inherited Mutilations loi The Motmot's Tail no Other Inherited Injuries Mentioned by Darwin , in Quasi-Inheritance ............. 116 MISCELLANEOUS CONSIDERATIONS . . 119—143 True Relation of Parents and Offspring 119 Inverse Inheritance 123 Early Origin of the Ova 124 Marked Effects of Use and Disuse on the Individual 126 Would Natural Selection Favour Use- Inheritance.? 127 Use-Inheritance an Evil ......... 128 Varied Effects of Use and Disuse . . . . 134 и se-Inheritance Implies Pangenesis .... 137 Pangenesis Improbable 138 Spencer's Explanation of Use-Inheritance 141

Are the effects of use and disuse inherited? : an examination of the view held by Spencer and Darwin / William Paul Ball.

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