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Title: The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex
Identifier: descentofmansele1874darw (find matches)
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
Subjects: Evolution; Natural selection; Heredity; Human beings; Sexual selection in animals; Sexual dimorphism (Animals); Sex differences
Publisher: New York : A. L. Burt
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
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680 THE DESCENT OF MAN. not possess.* Hence, a dog who pins a buffalo by the nos6 is immediately crushed. We must, however, remember that the Italian buffalo has been long domesticated, and it is by no means certain that the wild parent-form had simi- lar horns. Mr. Bartlett informs me that when a female Cape butfalc (Bubalus caffer) was turned into an inclosure with a bull of the same species she attacked him, and he in return pushed her about with great violence. But it was manifest to Mr. Bartlett that, had not the bull shown •dignified forbearance, he could easily have killed her by a single lateral thrust with his immense horns. The giraffe uses his short, hair-covered horns, which are rather longer in the male than in the female, in a curious manner; for,
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Fig. 63. Oryx leucoryx, male (from the Knowsley Menagerie). with his long neck, he swings his head to either side, almost upside down, v/ith such force that I have seen a hard plank deeply indented by a single blow. With antelopes it is sometimes difficult to imagine hov/ they can possibly use their curiously shaped horns ; thus the springboc (Ant. eucliore) has rather short upright horns, with the sharp points bent inward, almost at right angles, so as to face each other ; Mr. Bartlett does not know how they are used, but suggests that they would infxict a fearful wound down each side of the face of an antagonist. The slightly curved horns of the Oryx leu- coryx (fig. 63) are directed backward, and are of such *M. E. M. BaiRy, ** Sur I'usage des Cornes," etc., ** Aunal des Sc Nat.," torn, ii, 1824, p. 369.

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  • bookyear:1874
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  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Darwin_Charles_1809_1882
  • booksubject:Evolution
  • booksubject:Natural_selection
  • booksubject:Heredity
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  • booksubject:Sex_differences
  • bookpublisher:New_York_A_L_Burt
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