Both Uses of
hereditary
in
The Call of the Wild
- They quickened the old life within him, and the old tricks which they had stamped into the heredity of the breed were his tricks.†
Chpt 2 *
- Far more potent were the memories of his heredity that gave things he had never seen before a seeming familiarity; the instincts (which were but the memories of his ancestors become habits) which had lapsed in later days, and still later, in him, quickened and become alive again.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
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(hereditary) passed from parent to child