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SELECTION. 



Chap. XX, 



* 



as they now are in those parts for which they are valued aud 

 cultivated. 



With animals we see something of the same kind : but tW 



have not been domesticated in 

 sufficient varieties for a fair comp 



ffi 



t number or yielded 

 Sheep are valued for 



their wool, and the wool differs much more in the several races 

 than the hair in cattle. Neither sheep, goats, European cattle 

 nor pigs are valued for their fleetness or strength ; and we do 

 not possess breeds differing in these respects like the race-horse 



and dray 



But fleetness and 



gth 



are valued in 



camels and dogs ; and we have with the former the swift dro- 

 medary and heavy camel ; with the latter the greyhound and 

 mastiff. But dogs are valued even in a higher degree for their 



mental qualities and 



"p 



and 



the races differ in these respects. On the other hand 

 dog is valued solely to serve for food, as in the Poly 

 and China, it is described as an ext 



knows how greatly 



Blumenbach remarks 



emely stupid animal. 89 



a 



many dogs, such as the 



badger 



dog, have a build so marked and so appropriate for parti 

 purposes, that I should find it very difficult to persuade myself 



u 



deg 



astonishing figure was an accidental consequence of 



" 90 



But had Blumenbach reflected on the g 



principle of selection, he would not have used the term de 



d he would not have been 



astonished that dogs and 



of man 

 On 



animals should become excellently adapted for the 



whole we may conclude that whatever part or cha 



most valued 



flowers, fruit 



the leaves, stems, tubers, bulbs 



seed of plants 



size, 



gth, fleetness. 



hairy covering, or intellect of animals— that character will 



ably be found to present the greatest amount of difference 



both in kind and deg 



And 



r 



esult may be safely attributed 



preserved during a long course of generations 

 i were useful to him, and neglected the others 





i 



V 



\ 



I will conclude this chapter by some remarks on an im- 

 portant subject. With animals such as the giraffe, of which 



89 



90 < 



Godron, ' De l'Espece/ torn. ii. p. 27. 

 The Anthropological Treatises of Blumenbach,' 1SG5, p. 292. 



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