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Thoday and Gibson1 have criticized some points in my discussion2 of their results3 in relation to Mather's ideas4–6 concerning the action of stabilizing selection on the generation of “balanced combinations” of polygenes.
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SCHARLOO, W. Balanced Combinations of Polygenes. Nature 203, 102–103 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/203102a0
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