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Mimicry

Nature volume 123, page 874 (1929)Cite this article

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THE objections to natural selection and chance variation raised by my friend Prof. E. W. MacBride in NATURE of May 11, are those expressed by Asa Gray and answered by Darwin, when in 1867 he sent the advanced sheets of “Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication” to the great American botanist. The creative power of natural selection is explained by a metaphor:

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POULTON, E. Mimicry. Nature 123, 874 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123874a0

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