Charles Darwin's Works: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. 2vD. Appleton, 1896 |
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analogous animals and plants Antirrhinum appear bantam become birds bred breeders breeds buds capsules cattle cause changed conditions chapter characters close interbreeding colour common cultivated degree diseases distinct species dogs domestic races domesticated animals double flowers doubt effects extremely facts Fancy Pigeons fantail pigeon feathers female fertilised fertility flowers fowls Fritz Müller fruit Gardener's Chronicle Gärtner gemmules given Hist horns horses hybrids individuals inherited instance Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire kinds Kölreuter large number larvæ latent maize male manner modified mongrels natural selection natural species niata observed occasionally organs ovules pangenesis Paraguay parent parent-forms peculiar peloric period petals pigeons pigs pistil plumage pollen pollen-grains prepotency probably produced progenitor propagated racter reappearance remarks reproductive respect result reversion seed seedlings seen sexual sheep stamens sterility stripes structure tail Tegetmeier tendency tion transmitted variability variations varieties various vary whilst wild yield Youatt young
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第 291 頁 - However much we may wish it, we can hardly follow Professor Asa Gray in his belief that " variation has been led along certain beneficial lines," like a stream "along definite and useful lines of irrigation.
第 214 頁 - I am aware that my view is merely a provisional hypothesis or speculation ; but until a better one be advanced, it will serve to bring together a multitude of facts which are at present left disconnected by any efficient cause.
第 289 頁 - I may recur to the metaphor given in a former chapter; if an architect were to rear a noble and commodious edifice, without the use of cut stone, by selecting from the fragments at the base of a precipice wedge-formed stones for his arches, elongated stones for his lintels, and flat stones for his roof, we should admire his skill and regard him as the paramount power. Now, the fragments of stone, though indispensable to the architect, bear to the edifice built by him the same relation which the fluctuating...
第 43 頁 - The consequences of close interbreeding carried on for too long a time, are, as is generally believed, loss of size, constitutional vigour, and fertility, sometimes accompanied by a tendency to malformation.
第 143 頁 - Vilmorin, 18 even maintains that, when any particular variation is desired, the first step is to get the plant to vary in any manner whatever, and to go on selecting the most variable individuals, even though they vary in the wrong direction; for the fixed character of the species being once broken, the desired variation will sooner or later appear.
第 16 頁 - As a general rule, crossed offspring in the first generation are nearly intermediate between their parents, but the grandchildren and succeeding generations continually revert, in a greater or lesser degree, to one or both of their progenitors.
第 289 頁 - ... all the descendants of one common progenitor, and we must admit that the whole vast amount of difference between these forms has primarily arisen from simple variability. To consider the subject under this point of view is enough to strike one dumb with amazement. But our amazement ought to be lessened when we reflect that beings almost infinite in number, during an almost infinite lapse of time, have often had their whole organization rendered in some degree plastic, and that each slight modification...
第 81 頁 - ... but he holds the opposite view as more probable, that is, that the sterility, coming about gradually, leaves free for other growth the abundant supply of building material which the forming seed would otherwise have. He admits, however, that "there is an antagonism between the two forms...
第 19 頁 - Hewitt64 possessed an excellent Sebright gold-laced bantam hen, which, as she became old, grew diseased in her ovaria, and assumed male characters. In this breed the males resemble the females in all respects except in their combs, wattles, spurs, and instincts ; hence it might have been expected that the diseased hen would have assumed only those masculine characters which are proper to the breed, but she acquired, in addition, well-arched tail sickle-feathers quite a foot in length, saddlefeathers...
第 172 頁 - Natkusius has shown that with the improved races of the pig, the shortened legs and snout, the form of the articular condyles of the occiput, and the position of the jaws with the upper canine teeth projecting in a most anomalous manner in front of the lower canines, may be attributed to these parts not having been fully exercised.