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Contrasts in near-similarity

A Correction to this article was published on 26 July 1984

A Correction to this article was published on 12 July 1984

The Low Countries, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, are far from being the homogeneous corner of Northern Europe that geography suggests. 

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Contrasts in near-similarity. Nature 309, 491–510 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1038/309491a0

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