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THE subject of this communication may seem remote and uninteresting, but it will not be difficult to show that questions of the highest importance for physiology, anatomy, and the Darwinian theory are closely related to those touching the structure of the electric organs of certain fishes and the laws of their functions.
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FRITSCH, G. On the Origin of the Electric Nerves in the Torpedo, Gymnotus, Mormyrus and Malapterurus. Nature 47, 271–274 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/047271a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/047271a0