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Selection in natural populations
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Selection in natural populations

  • H N Barber1 na1 

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  1. H N Barber: This is an extended version of a paper of the same title delivered at the opening of the symposium on “Evolution and Selection within Populations”, Xth International Botanical Congress, Edinburgh, August 1964.

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Barber, H. Selection in natural populations. Heredity 20, 551–572 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1965.68

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