Abstract
SCHARLOO1 has discussed certain of our results2 in relation to what he purports is a summary of Mather's ideas concerning polygenic balance. We feel it necessary to criticize his communication inasmuch as it seems to us misleading in at least four ways.
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THODAY, J., GIBSON, J. Balanced Combinations of Polygenes. Nature 201, 736–737 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/201736b0
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