Effects of Disruptive Selection: The Experimental Production of a Polymorphic Population (original) (raw)

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THODAY, J. Effects of Disruptive Selection: The Experimental Production of a Polymorphic Population.Nature 181, 1124–1125 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1811124a0

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