The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2)

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THE VARIATION

OF

ANIMALS AND PLANTS

UNDER DOMESTICATION.

By CHARLES DARWIN, M.A., F.R.S., &c.

IN TWO VOLUMES.—Vol. II.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1868.

The right of Translation is reserved.

LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET, AND

CHARING CROSS.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

CHAPTER XII.

INHERITANCE.

WONDERFUL NATURE OF INHERITANCE—PEDIGREES OF OUR DOMESTICATED

ANIMALS—INHERITANCE NOT DUE TO CHANCE—TRIFLING CHARACTERS

INHERITED—DISEASES INHERITED—PECULIARITIES IN THE EYE INHERITED—

DISEASES

IN

THE

HORSE—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 ... Page 1

CHAPTER XIII.

INHERITANCE continued—REVERSION OR ATAVISM.

DIFFERENT FORMS OF REVERSION—IN PURE OR UNCROSSED BREEDS, AS IN

PIGEONS, FOWLS, HORNLESS CATTLE AND SHEEP, IN CULTIVATED PLANTS—

REVERSION IN FERAL ANIMALS AND PLANTS—REVERSION IN CROSSED

VARIETIES AND SPECIES—REVERSION THROUGH BUD-PROPAGATION, AND BY

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