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On Natural Control

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

W. R. Thompson
W. R. Thompson
Affiliation:
Imperial Bureau of Entomology.
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Extract

There can be no doubt that reasoning by analogy contributes enormously to the progress of Science by suggesting the hypotheses which form the basis of experimental investigation. But although it is useful, it is also dangerous and it is not infrequently the source of plausible but inaccurate and misleading catchwords.

Type
Research Article
Information
Parasitology , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , September 1929 , pp. 269 - 281
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1929

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1 This is sometimes considered to be due to the possession of protective devices of certain kinds, but the explanation is not satisfactory. Neither systems of colorations, nor nettling hairs, nor an armour of chitinised plates, nor rapidity of movement, nor the existence of toxic principles in the blood prevent insects from being decimated by parasites.