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I HAVE been reading over in the file of NATURE the controversy that arose out of Mr. Alfred Bennett's paper at the British Association in 1870, on “Natural Selection from a Mathematical Point of View,” in which he attacked Darwin's theory on what seems to be one of its strongest points, namely, protective mimicry. I do not feel certain whether he is right or not in denying that natural selection is adequate to produce mimicry. The argument really depends on a question of fact, namely, whether the first variation could be great enough to be useful to its possessor; and from the great comparative variability of colour, I see no decided impossibility in this.
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MURPHY, J. Protective Mimicry. Nature 14, 309 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/014309b0
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