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Nature 411, 529 (31 May 2001) | doi:10.1038/35079203
Knife-edge of design
Jack Cohen1
Victorian biologists were fond of the phrase "The profligacy of nature". As biology lost its contact with natural history and took up with Mendel and Fisher in the early 1900s, this profligacy — which had so impressed Darwin and Wallace — was replaced by Latin squares and normal distributions.
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