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IN Mrs. Sexton's important paper1 on “Degeneration and Loss of the Eye in the Amphipod Gammarus chevreuxi” she makes one remark which, in its suggestion of theoretical controversy, is in striking contrast with the mass of details of observation, and minute records of genetical facts, of which the rest of the paper consists. The sentence to which I refer is: “In view of all that has been written on the origin of the blind fauna, it is a significant fact that blind animals could be produced within the limits of a single species in such a short time and in so few generations”.
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CUNNINGHAM, J. Degenerative Mutations. Nature 130, 203–204 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130203b0
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