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AT the recent International Congress of Genetics at Edinburgh, in the course of discussions on the possibility that the blood-group frequencies found in man were determined by a balance of selective influences, it occurred to one of the authors that evidence on the parallel possibility for taste-testing could be obtained by testing the anthropoid apes.
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FISHER, R., FORD, E. & HUXLEY, J. Taste-testing the Anthropoid Apes. Nature 144, 750 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144750a0
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