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complete identity results. Yet this operation 

 of the rigid transfer of traits from individual 

 to individual is an essential step, perhaps the 

 essential step, in the process of racial progress- 

 Without it the evolution of man would have 

 been impossible. In the last lecture I shall en- 

 deavor to show the relations of this process 

 of reproduction to that of evolution as seen in 

 the human species. 



