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As already explained (p. 8), the programme of ecological genetics conducted for forty-five years, outlined in the previous chapter, has exploited those situations which so greatly increase the speed of the evolutionary processes that they can conveniently be observed and studied. The occurrence of marked numerical fluctuations in isolated populations was the first of these to be used in that way.
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Ford, E.B. (1977). Numerical Changes in Animal Populations. In: Ecological Genetics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5825-8_2
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