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IN NATURE of May 31, Prof. Salisbury points out that most of the mortality among higher plants occurs at the seedling stage, and concludes that natural selection is mainly confined to this stage. I believe, however, that this apparently obvious conclusion is fallacious, for the following reason:
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HALDANE, J. Natural Selection Intensity as a Function of Mortality Rate. Nature 126, 883 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126883a0
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