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Title: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex
Identifier: descentofmansel02darw (find matches)
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
Subjects: Evolution (Biology); Sexual selection in animals; Sexual dimorphism (Animals); Sex differences; Human beings
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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Chap. XVIII ) EQUAL TRANSMISSION. 285 with snow, the pale winter coats would probably be ren- dered, through natural selection, whiter and whiter by de- grees, until they become as white as snow. Although we must admit that many quadrupeds have
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Fig. 68.—Tragelaphus Rcriptus, male (from the Knowsley Menagerie). received their present tints as a protection, yet with a host of species the colors are far too conspicuous and too sin- gularly arranged to allow us to suppose that they serve for this purpose. We may take as an illustration certain antelopes: when we see that the square white patch on

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