cumulatively-educative

Updated: November 11, 2024

"Habits, moreover followed during many generations probably tend to be inherited." This is probable, independently of use-inheritance. The "many generations" specified or implied, will allow time for the play of selective as well as of cumulatively-educative influences.

W. P. (William Platt) Ball - Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited?: An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin