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II. THE argument for orthogenesis based on a race-history that marches to inevitable destruction, heedless of environmental factors, has always seemed to me incontrovertible, and so long as my knowledge of paleontology was derived mainly from books I accepted this premise as well-founded. But more intensive study generally shows that characters at first regarded as indifferent or detrimental may have been adapted to some factor in the environment or some peculiar mode of life.
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BATHER, F. Fossils and Life*. Nature 106, 192–195 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106192a0
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