Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, the — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin
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LONGEVITY AND VIGOUR--ASYMMETRICAL DEVIATIONS OF STRUCTURE--POLYDACTYLISM
AND REGROWTH OF SUPERNUMERARY DIGITS AFTER AMPUTATION--CASES OF SEVERAL CHILDREN SIMILARLY AFFECTED FROM NON-AFFECTED PARENTS--WEAK AND FLUCTUATING INHERITANCE: IN WEEPING TREES, IN DWARFNESS, COLOUR OF FRUIT AND FLOWERS-- COLOUR OF HORSES--NON-INHERITANCE IN CERTAIN CASES--INHERITANCE OF STRUCTURE AND HABITS OVERBORNE BY HOSTILE CONDITIONS OF LIFE, BY INCESSANTLY RECURRING VARIABILITY, AND BY REVERSION--CONCLUSION. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. FIGURE. 1. DUN DEVONSHIRE PONY, WITH SHOULDER, SPINAL, AND LEG STRIPES. 2. HEAD OF JAPAN OR MASKED PIG. 3. HEAD OF WILD BOAR, AND OF "GOLDEN DAYS," A PIG OF THE YORKSHIRE LARGE BREED. 4. OLD IRISH PIG WITH JAW-APPENDAGES. 5. HALF-LOP RABBIT. 6. SKULL OF WILD RABBIT. 7. SKULL OF LARGE LOP-EARED RABBIT. 8. PART OF ZYGOMATIC ARCH, SHOWING THE PROJECTING END OF THE MALAR BONE OF THE AUDITORY MEATUS, OF RABBITS. |
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