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The Migration of the Lemming

Nature volume 45, pages 150–151 (1891)Cite this article

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MY attention having recently been drawn to the question of the migration of that little Norwegian rodent the lemming, as a serious obstacle to the theory of natural selection, and hence to evolution generally, I write to call attention to what appears to me to be a possible factor in the starting of the migration.

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COLLINS, F. The Migration of the Lemming. Nature 45, 150–151 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/045150a0

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