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I first met Bruce Wallace in the late 1940s when he was a graduate student in the Columbia University laboratory of Theodosius Dobzhansky. We had an extensive discussion of the population genetics of the sex-ratio phenomenon in Drosophila pseudoobscura, on which he was then working. The discussion continued by correspondence, for I had found an algebraic solution to one of the problems. The exchange didn’t amount to much scientifically, but it kept up a friendship that has continued ever since.
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Crow, J.F. (1998). Overdominance. In: Hecht, M.K., Macintyre, R.J., Clegg, M.T. (eds) Evolutionary Biology. Evolutionary Biology, vol 30. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1751-5_1
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