In the past ten thousand years we have added one bird to their list of domesticated animals!
If the stock of domesticated animals can be improved, it is not unfair to ask if the health and vigor of the future generations of men and women on the earth might not be improved by applying to them the laws of selection.
Schaler, Domesticated Animals, their Relations to Man and to His Advancement in Civilization.
It must be remembered that, in the case of the artificial selection of domesticated animals, man has been working against and not with the stream of ancestral tendency.
In domesticated animals, reversion to characters of distant ancestors sometimes occurs.
The best results are, perhaps, those which have been incidentally reached in the poultry-yard and on the farm in the breeding of domesticated animals.
If individuals of two widely different varieties be allowed to cross, a third race will be formed--a most fertile source of the variation in domesticated animals.
Rats may be considered as semi-domesticated animals.
Turning now to domesticated animals, we find that certain characters not proper to the parent species are often confined to, and inherited by, one sex alone; but we do not know the history of the first appearance of such characters.
On the greater variability of the males of domesticated animals, see my 'Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication,' vol.
But the development of such characters would be much aided, if the males were more liable to vary than the females--as I concluded they were--after a long study of domesticated animals.
We have as yet considered the transference of characters, relatively to their period of development, only in species in a natural state; we will now turn to domesticated animals, and first touch on monstrosities and diseases.
Much thought has been given by naturalists to the exact origin of the various races of domesticated animals.
A nation which shuts itself off from contact with other nations is in the condition of a finely inbred race of domesticated animals.
Speaking in general terms, it may be said that Asia is the great original home of domesticated animals as a class.
It is in possession of houses, fruit trees, agricultural allotments, domesticated animals, and a native currency.
Of course 'primitive' man has no domesticated animals, and does not sacrifice anything to anybody.
We have as yet only considered the transference of characters, relatively to their period of development, with species in a natural state; we will now turn to domesticated animals; first touching on monstrosities and diseases.
With respect to domesticated animals, as their domestication mainly depends on the accident of their breeding freely under captivity, we ought not to expect that their reproductive system would be affected by any moderate degree of change.
Turning now to domesticated animals, we find that certain characters not proper to the parent-species are often confined to, and inherited by, one sex alone; but we do not know the history of the first appearance of such characters.
Let us now turn to domesticated animals, and inquire how varieties produced among them are affected by the principles here enunciated.
A little consideration makes it evident to us that the advance of mankind above the original savage state is in several ways favored by the possession of domesticated animals.
Rights of Domesticated Animals to Proper Care; to Enjoyment.
Considering the surprising external differences that exist in domesticated animals of the same species, the wonder rather is, that the different races of men differ physically so little as they do, than that they differ so much.
In domesticated animals, from causes apparently not as yet traced, the colour is variegated and various.
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