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“An organism is regarded as adapted to a particular situation, or to the totality of situations which constitute its environment, only in so far as we can imagine an assemblage of slightly different situations, or environments, to which the animal would on the whole be less adapted; and equally in so far as we can imagine an assemblage of slightly different organic forms, which would be less well adapted to that environment” (Fisher, 1930).
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Parsons, P.A. (1988). Adaptation. In: Myers, A.A., Giller, P.S. (eds) Analytical Biogeography. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1199-4_8
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