Degenerate Heredity: The History of a Doctrine in Medicine and Biology

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DEGENERATE HEREDITY: THE HISTORY OF A DOCTRINE IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY MARK S. LUBINSKY* Introduction Although no longer in use, degenerate heredity was a well accepted and scientifically influential doctrine from the end of the eighteenth century well into our own. It centered on weakness of the hereditary force that kept form and function constant from generation to generation . This weakness could increase...

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