Variation under Domestication
Causes of Variability
When we look to the individuals of the same variety or sub-variety of our older cultivated plants...
Effects of Habit and the Use or Disuse of Parts; Correlated Variation; Inheritance.
Changed habits produce an inherited effect as in the period of the flowering of plants when trans...
Character of Domestic Varieties; difficulty of distinguishing between Varieties and Species; origin of Domestic Varieties from one or more Species.
When we look to the hereditary varieties or races of our domestic animals and plants, and compare...
Breeds of the Domestic Pigeon, their Differences and Origin.
Believing that it is always best to study some special group, I have, after deliberation, taken u...
Principles of Selection anciently followed, and their Effects.
Let us now briefly consider the steps by which domestic races have been produced, either from one...
Unconscious Selection.
At the present time, eminent breeders try by methodical selection, with a distinct object in view...
Circumstances favourable to Man's power of Selection.
I will now say a few words on the circumstances, favourable or the reverse, to man's power of sel...