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on the organism. The bad effects of close interbreeding that 

 seem sometimes to follow is explicable on this view. This, 

 it seems to me, is the most plausible solution of the question 

 that has been advanced ; but, even if this should prove to be 

 the correct view, we need not assume that the process has 

 been acquired on account of this advantage, for there is 

 nothing to show that it has been acquired in this way. 



