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Evolution as a Process.

Ed. Julian Huxley, A.C. Hardy, and E.B. Ford. Contributors : G. R. de Beer, E.J.H. Corner, H.B. Cott, James Fisher, Sir Ronald Fisher, E.B. Ford, J.B.S. Haldane, A.C. Hardy, Julian Huxley, David Lack, Ernst Mayr, Bernhard Rensch, P.M. Sheppard, H.N. Southern, N. Tinbergen, T.S. Westoll, E.N. Willmer, J.Z. Young and S. Zuckerman. London: George Allen and Unwin. Pp. 367. 25s.

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