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Celeste M. Condit; Paul J. Achter; Ilon Lauer; Enid Sefcovic
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Article
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2001
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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A quantitative examination of a representative sample of popular discourse about genetics and heredity from U.S. mass magazines between 1919 and 1996 indicates that the term mutation has become increasingly negative in its connotations through time. Although it has been used more frequently than alt