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“We shall at least be freed from the vain search for the undiscovered and undiscoverable essence of the term species … a grand and almost untrodden field of enquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation, on the effects of use and disuse, on the direct action of external conditions. … A new variety reared by man will be a more important and interesting subject for study than one more species added to the infinitude of already recorded species.”—Darwin, “Origin of Species” ; 1884; chap. xv.
The Species Problem: an Introduction to the Study of Evolutionary Divergence in Natural Populations.
By G. C. Robson. (Biological Monographs and Manuals, No. 8.) Pp. vii + 283. (Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd, 1928.) 15s. net.
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P., A. The Species Problem: an Introduction to the Study of Evolutionary Divergence in Natural Populations . Nature 122, 304–306 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122304a0
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