We study the geometry of the surfaces embedded in ~4 through their generic contacts with hyperplanes. The inflection points on them are shown to be the umbilic points of their families of height functions. As a consequence we prove that any genetic convexly embedded 2-sphere in ~4 has inflection points.
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