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IN a communication in NATURE of Aug. 10, Prof. E. W. MacBride, while admitting the reality of natural selection, denies that it applies to random variation. He dismisses ill-adapted types found in Nature as “pathological”, and states that selection favours “the most vigorous individuals”. It is not clear to me that much is gained by substituting the words ‘vigorous’ and ‘pathological’ for Darwin's ‘fit’ and ‘unfit’.
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HALDANE, J. Natural Selection. Nature 124, 444 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124444a0
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