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In other ways also, it became clear that coenogenesis could not suffice to explain deviations from the rule.
RECAPITULATION JANE OPPENHEIMER 1968
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As genetic data accumulated, coenogenesis became less acceptable as an explanation of deviations from strict recapitulation, since it implied the inheritance of acquired characters, the Lamarckian theory, which was unacceptable to the new genetics.
RECAPITULATION JANE OPPENHEIMER 1968
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