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Mark—recapture methods were originally developed for estimating the size of mobile animal populations. However, it was soon recognized that the same methods could be used for estimating survival rates in the wild. It was then a short step to using the same approach for comparing the survival rates of different morphs in a polymorphic population. This application was pioneered by H. B. P. Kettlewell in the mid-1950s in a series of classical experiments on the moth Biston betularia.
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Manly, B.F.J. (1985). Mark—recapture experiments. In: The Statistics of Natural Selection on Animal Populations. Population and Community Biology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4840-2_2
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