Letter to Pontecorvo from Professor Boris Ephrussi responding to what Pontecorvo described as "the nightmare of defining "genetic" properties and changes"

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Ephrussi writes that he agress with Pontecorvo on the "difficulty of rigorous definition" of terms such as "genetic", "differentiation" and "mutation". He also makes reference to a discussion on this matter to be held at Gale's symposium.