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The Origin of Species

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IN a recent issue of NATURE (NOV. 25, p. 77) Mr. Catchpool writes:β€”β€œIs it, or is it not, the fact that allied species, which are confined each to a particular island, prove, when brought together, far less frequently infertile than species, equally dissimilar, which had lived in the same district, might be expected to prove? On the answer to this question depends, as far as I can see, the fate of the theory of physiological selection. Can no one answer it?”

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ROMANES, G. The Origin of Species. Nature 35, 124–125 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/035124a0

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