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Physiological Selection and the Origin of Species

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As Mr. Romanes has referred to my article in the current number of the Fortnightly Review, and stated that he is prepared to answer what he terms “the very obvious exceptions” which I have taken to his theory, I shall be glad to be allowed to state, very briefly, what those exceptions are, and to give an illustration of one of the more important of them.

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WALLACE, A. Physiological Selection and the Origin of Species. Nature 34, 467–468 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/034467a0

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