The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication

Volume II

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Charles Darwin

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The great principle of inheritance to be discussed in this chapter has been recognised by agriculturists and authors of various nations, as shown by the scientific term ATAVISM, derived from atavus, an ancestor; by the English terms of REVERSION, or THROWING-BACK; by the French PAS-EN-ARRIERE; and by the German RUCKSCHLAG, or RUCKSCHRITT. When the child resembles either grandparent more closely than its immediate parents, our attention is not much arrested, though in truth the fact is highly remarkable; but when the child resembles some remote ancestor or some distant member in a collateral line, -and in the last case we must attribute this to the descent of all the members from a common progenitor, -we feel a just degree of astonishment. When one parent alone displays some newly-acquired and generally inheritable character, and the offspring do not inherit it, the cause may lie in the other parent having the power of prepotent transmissi

Release date NZ

February 28th, 2021

Author

Charles Darwin

Pages

438

Audience

Children / Juvenile

Dimensions

216x280x23

ISBN-13

9798714604324

Product ID

34821195

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