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THIS reference is of great interest. As I have shown in the Introduction to my recent book upon “Age and Area,” both Lyell and Hooker had conceived the ideas which I have elaborated. The incoming of the Darwinian theory of evolution, however, with its novel conception of universal gradual change, diverted effort from the lines that it was beginning to follow, and to which it shows signs of returning, with the increasing recognition of the fact that gradual change is not possible in the case of most characters.
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WILLIS, J. The Age and Area Hypothesis. Nature 111, 115 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111115a0
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