It has been shown that probably such changes of external conditions would, from acting on the reproductive system, cause the organization of the beings most affected to become, as under domestication, plastic.
Under domestication, it may be truly said that the whole organisation becomes in some degree plastic.
If we turn to varieties, produced, or supposed to have been produced, under domestication, we are still involved in doubt.
I have hitherto sometimes spoken as if the variations--so common and multiform with organic beings under domestication, and in a lesser degree with those under nature--were due to chance.
Under domestication, it may truly be said that the whole organisation becomes in some degree plastic.
The same rule certainly holds good with parts which have become rudimentary under domestication.
On the other hand, secondary sexual characters which properly belong to the species are sometimes quite lost, or greatly diminished, under domestication.
Hence it would appear that the same law has regulated the state of the feathers on the head and body, both with species living under their natural conditions, and with birds which have varied under domestication.
It might have been thought that so important a physiological difference would not have arisen under domestication; but M.
This is another bird which has hardly varied under domestication, except in sometimes being white or piebald.
It would therefore appear that the same law has regulated the state of the feathers on the head and body, both with species living under natural conditions, and with birds which have varied under domestication.
On the other hand, secondary sexual characters which belong to the species in a state of nature are sometimes quite lost, or greatly diminished, under domestication.
For were the conditions to change, and to become as favorable as those to which animals and plants are subjected under domestication, races would then arise.
If this is the case, is not the scope of reversion sufficiently wide to cover every favorable modification which has arisen, or may arise, under domestication?
The English lop-eared rabbit, which is under domestication, weighs not less than eighteen pounds.
Under domestication, the changed conditions are the secondary cause of favorable modifications, reversion being the primary cause.
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