[16] Davenport, 1906, page 86.
[17] Mendel's expression on this subject is translated by Bateson (1902, p. 84) as follows: "Whoever studies the coloration which results in ornamental plants from similar fertilization can hardly escape the conviction that here also the development follows a definite law which possibly finds its expression in the combination of several independent color characters. (The italics are Mendel's.)
[18] "An inherent tendency to reversion is evolved through some disturbance in the organization caused by the act of crossing." (Darwin, Animals and Plants under Domestication, Chapter XIII, section, "Summary on proximate causes leading to reversion.")
[20] Davenport, 1906, page 35.
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