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is well established, the mechanisms are largely hypothetical and undemonstrated. The book claims that most differences among animal populations and related species are non-adaptive. It was published before major developments in the
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has commented that the book "has been in disrepute since the late 1940s because of its antagonism to natural selection" but notes that it was the "best known general work on animal taxonomy" before the work of
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has noted that "Robson and Richards suggested that the differences between species are non-adaptive and have nothing to do with natural selection."
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The Variation of Animals in Nature: A Critical Summary and Judgment of Evolutionary Theories by G. C. Robson, O. W. Richards
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A Monograph of the Recent Cephalopoda. Based on the collections in the British Museum, Natural History
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The following marine species have been named after Guy Robson to honour his contribution to science:
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in 1911, becoming Deputy Keeper of the Zoology Department from 1931 to 1936.
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Guide to the Mollusca exhibited in the Zoological Department, British Museum
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Index

zoologist
Mollusca
Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni
Naples
Natural History Museum
O. W. Richards
evolution
modern synthesis
natural selection
Mark Ridley
Will Provine
Julian Huxley
Ernst Mayr
Evolution: The Modern Synthesis
Abralia robsoni
Robsonella
Onykia robsoni
Amphioctopus robsoni
Opisthoteuthis robsoni
Uroteuthis (Photololigo) robsoni
Digitosepia robsoni
The Species Problem
The Variation of Animals in Nature
O. W. Richards


The Variation of Animals in Nature: A Critical Summary and Judgment of Evolutionary Theories by G. C. Robson, O. W. Richards
American Journal of Sociology
The Variation of Animals in Nature
Nature

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