The Variation of animals and plants under domestication v. 1, Volume 1Appleton, 1876 |
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aboriginal animals appearance bankiva Barbs beak birds blue Blyth body bones Brent bud-variation buds Carriers cattle cervical vertebra character Cochins cock colour common crest crossed cultivated descended distinct species dogs domestic pigeons domestic rabbits domestic races dovecot duck ears elongated English Pouter fact fanciers Fantails feathers female feral flowers frontal bones fruit Gardener's Chron Gardener's Chronicle grafted Hist Hort hybrids inches India inherited Islands kinds latter legs length livia Loudon's lumbar vertebræ maize male mammæ modified namely nasal bones natural nearly nectarine niata observed parent parent-forms peach peculiar pigeons pigs plants plumage Polish fowls pollen Porto Santo Poultry Pouters produced propagated remarkable resemble reversion rock-pigeon Runts seed seedlings seen selection shape Short-faced Tumbler skeletons skin skull specimens sternum striped sub-breeds Sub-race sub-varieties tail tail-feathers Tegetmeier trees tubers Turbit variable variation varieties vary vertebræ whilst wild rabbit wild rock-pigeon wings
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Page 6 - It has been said that I speak of natural selection as an active power or Deity; but who objects to an author speaking of the attraction of gravity as ruling the movements of the planets?
Page 7 - So again it is difficult to avoid personifying the word Nature ; but I mean by Nature, only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws, and by laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us.
Page 26 - ... it is highly probable that the domestic dogs of the world are descended from two well-defined species of wolf (viz. C. lupus and C. latrans), and from two or three other doubtful species (namely, the European, Indian, and North African wolves) ; from at least one or two South American canine species ; from several races or species of jackal ; and perhaps from one or more extinct species.
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Page 3 - Man, therefore, may be said to have been trying an experiment on a gigantic scale ; and it is an experiment which nature during the long lapse of time has incessantly tried.
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