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Non-Darwinian Evolution: Consequences for Neutral Allelic Variation

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A test is made of the hypothesis that there is a relationship between the rate of evolutionary change and the degree of neutral allelic variation in populations using data on haemoglobin variants in man.

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    NORMAN ARNHEIM & CHARLES E. TAYLOR

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ARNHEIM, N., TAYLOR, C. Non-Darwinian Evolution: Consequences for Neutral Allelic Variation. Nature 223, 900–903 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/223900a0

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