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Identifier: descentofmansele02darw (find matches)
Title: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
Subjects: Evolution Natural selection Heredity Human beings -- Origin Evolution
Publisher: London, J. Murray
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cies. In an extinct variety of tlie turkey,the top-knot consisted of bare quills surmounted withplumes of down, so that they resembled, to a certainextent, the racket-shaped feathers above described. Incertain breeds of the pigeon and fowl the feathers areplumose, with some tendency in the shafts to be naked.In the Sebastopol goose the scapular feathers are greatlyelongated, curled, or even spirally twisted, with themargins plumose.®^ In regard to colour hardly anything need here besaid; for every one knows how s)3lendid are the tints 66 Wallace, in Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist. vol. xx. 1857, p. 416and in liis Malay Archipelago, vol. ii. 1869, p. o*J0. 6 See my ^vork on The Variation of Animals and Plants underDomestication, vol. i. p. 289, 293. Chap. XIII. DECORATION. 75 of birds, and how barraonioiisly they are combined.The colours are often metallic and iridescent. Circularspots are sometimes surrounded by one or more differ-ently shaded zones, and are thus converted into ocelli.
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76 SEXUAL selection: BIEDS. Part IL Nor need much be said on the wonderful differencesbetween the sexes, or of the extreme beauty of themales of many birds. The common peacock offers astrikino: instance. Female Birds of Paradise are

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