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IF this note should meet the eye of the writer on Darwinism in the North British: Review for June 1867, I should feel greatly obliged if he would explain the following passage, quoted by Mr. Mivart in p. 57 of his “Genesis of Species”:— “The advantage is utterly outbalanced by numerical inferiority. A million creatures are born; ten thousand survive to produce offspring. One of the million has twice as good a chance as any other of surviving; but the chances are fifty to one against the gifted individual being one of the hundred survivors.”
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STUDENS. The Genesis of Species. Nature 3, 347 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/003347b0
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