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The papers were published in ten parts over ten years in three different journals. {, class="wikitable" !Part !Year !Subtitle (if applicable) !Reference !External links , - , I , 1924 , - , ''Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society'' 23:19-41
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, - , II , 1924 , The influence of partial self-fertilisation, inbreeding, assortative mating and selective fertilisation on the composition of Mendelian populations and on natural selection , ''Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. Biological Sciences'' 1:158-163
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, - , III , 1926 , - , ''Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society'' 23:363-372
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, - , IV , 1927 , - , ''Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society'' 23:607-615
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, - , V , 1927 , Selection and mutation , ''Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society'' 23:838-844
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, - , VI , 1930 , Isolation , ''Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society'' 26:220-230
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, - , VII , 1931 , Selection intensity as a function of mortality rate , ''Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society'' 27:131-136
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, - , VIII , 1932 , Metastable populations , ''Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society'' 27:137-142
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, - , IX , 1932 , Rapid selection , ''Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society'' 28:244-248
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, - , X , 1934 , Some theorems on artificial selection , ''

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Mathematical Theory of Natural and Artificial Selection, A Biology papers Works by J. B. S. Haldane Modern synthesis (20th century)