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OF
ANIMALS AND PLANTS
UNDER
DOMESTICATION.
BY CHARLES DARWIN, M.A., F.R.S., &c.
2870
VHE PIBKVIA
D365 AIV v. 2
1876
CONTENTS.
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 SEGMENTS IN THE SAME FLOWER OR FRUIT
-IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE BODY IN THE SAME ANIMAL-
THE ACT OF CROSSING A DIRECT CAUSE OF REVERSION, VARIOUS
CASES OF, WITH INSTINCTS-OTHER PROXIMATE CAUSES OF RE-
VERSION-LATENT CHARACTERS-SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERS
-UNEQUAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE TWO SIDES OF THE BODY-
APPEARANCE WITH ADVANCING AGE OF CHARACTERS DERIVED
FROM A CROSS-THE GERM, WITH ALL ITS LATENT CHARACTERS,
A WONDERFUL OBJECT-MONSTROSITIES-PELORIC FLOWERS DUE IN
SOME CASES TO REVERSION
Pages 1-36
CHAPTER XIV.
INHERITANCE, continued -
PREPOTENCY-SEXUAL
- FIXEDNESS OF
LIMITATION-CORRESPONDENCE
CHARACTER--
OF AGE.
FIXEDNESS OF CHARACTER APPARENTLY NOT DUE TO ANTIQUITY OF
INHERITANCE-PREPOTENCY OF TRANSMISSION IN INDIVIDUALS OF
THE SAME FAMILY, IN CROSSED BREEDS AND SPECIES; OFTEN
STRONGER IN ONE SEX THAN THE OTHER; SOMETIMES DUE TO THE
SAME CHARACTER BEING PRESENT AND VISIBLE IN ONE BREED
AND LATENT IN THE OTHER-INHERITANCE AS LIMITED BY SEX-
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