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Many aspects of variation genetics are reviewed, especially but by no means exclusively with reference to extinct animals. The major topics covered are: polymorphism; the causes of variation; the relation of variation to evolutionary rate, stage of evolution, and niche width; changes of variation in time; range of reaction; parthenogenesis and variation; evolution of correlations; and ontogeny of variation.
Leigh Van Valen (Thu,) studied this question.