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THE publication in the three last numbers of NATURE, by Mr. Romanes, of very important papers,1 induces me to send the following lines as a contribution to the discussion upon them that is sure to ensue. He ascribes the origin of varieties to peculiarities in the reproductive system of certain individuals, which render them more or less sterile to other members of the common stock, while they remain fertile among themselves. I also have a theory which, while it differs much from that of Mr. Romanes, runs on curiously parallel lines to it, and was prompted by the same keen sense of an inadequacy in the theory of Natural Selection to account for the origin of varieties. I should not have published my views until they had been far more matured than they are had not the present occasion arisen.
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GALTON, F. The Origin of Varieties . Nature 34, 395–396 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/034395a0
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