8o ARE THE EFFECTS OF USE INHERITED? 



to the group of cases in which Darwin holds that 

 " habit has done nothing," and selection has done 



(4) If use-inheritance has tamed the rabbit, why 

 are the bucks still so mischievous and unruly ? 

 Why is the Angora breed the only one in which 

 the males show no desire to destroy the young ? 

 Why, too, should use-inheritance be so much more 

 powerful in the rabbit than with other animals 

 which are far more easily tamed in the first in- 

 stance ? Wild young rabbits when domesticated 

 "remain unconquerably wild," and, although they 

 may be kept alive, they pine and " rarely come to 

 any good." Yet the animal which acquires least 

 tameness or apparently, indeed, none at all 

 inherits most ! It appears, in fact, to inherit that 

 which it cannot acquire a circumstance which 

 indicates the selection of spontaneous variations 

 rather than the inheritance of changed habits. 

 Such variations occasionally occur in animals in a 



