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THE writers have, on one hand, been examining the variability of thirty-five species of Lepidoptera, chiefly common British moths, and, on the other hand, studying the variation to be expected theoretically in a population exhibiting inheritance wholly on Mendelian lines, with the corresponding appropriate mutation frequencies, under the influence of natural selection. The conclusions at which they have respectively arrived show a sufficiently striking agreement to suggest a theory which may be generally applicable to the natural variability of wild species.
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FISHER, R., FORD, E. Variability of Species. Nature 118, 515–516 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118515a0
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