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MR. W. AINSLIE HOLLIS has involuntarily misrepresented me as saying that the theory of natural selection can be “seriously assailed” by investigations respecting galls. I said, indeed (NATURE, November 14, p. 41), that it would be “very interesting to learn how” natural selection could have caused them; but I was careful to add that doubtless an explanatory hypothesis was ready to hand. I do not myself believe they were so caused; but if they were not, they would none the less, like almost all biological phenomena, be explicable by an unlimited use of gratuitous hypotheses concerning physiological correlations and imaginary ancestors.
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MIVART, S. Galls. Nature 41, 174–175 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/041174c0
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