Domesticated Animals And Plants a Brief Treatise Upon the Origin And Developmen
Domesticated Animals And Plants a Brief Treatise Upon the Origin And Developmen
E Eugene Davenport
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As a physiological fact it is interesting; as a matter in plant or animal improvement it hardly applies, for as soon as systematic selection is a little while practiced, the chance of reversion rapidly reduces to practically nothing. Degeneracy. This is a matter of importance in human affairs rather than in those of the animal and plant, but facts such as 1 64 DOMESTICATED ANIMALS AND PLANTS this table shows, lead us to look with suspicion upon the indi- vidual that is " born short. " He may be... the offspring of excel- lent parentage, as in column 2, rows e and g, in which case the pull of regression will be greatly in his favor. But, on the other hand, he may be the product of bad parentage, as in column 2, rows k, /, and m f in which cases the matter is well-nigh hopeless, as many a poor girl has found, who has married a scamp to " reform him. " He has broken her heart and wasted her life all because she did not know, the simplest facts about transmis- sion. If a man is well born, it is upon him to show his breeding, if he can, and if not, to prove that his ancestry was at least respectable and not much below mediocrity ; and if he cannot do this, he is a great risk as a partner in any business.
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