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ACCORDING to Zeuner1 one of the difficulties of explaining evolution by the mutation theory is to account for the fact that elephants, which have the slowest rate of breeding, have had the fastest rate of evolution.
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PINCHER, C. Possible Influence of Inbreeding on Evolution. Nature 163, 535 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163535a0
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