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IN his letter to NATURE, June 28, Dr. R. A. Fisher asserts that there is a concealed fallacy in my statement that “the mortality and therefore the operation of natural selection is almost entirely confined to the juvenile stages of development”. But the reasons that he gives for this assertion would appear to involve a failure to distinguish between the effect of mortality on the number of offspring and its effect as a selective agent.
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SALISBURY, E. Mortality amongst Plants and its Bearing on Natural Selection. Nature 126, 95–96 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126095b0
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