Anti Darwin / by the author of "Ceylon, ancient and modern".

  • Suckling, Horatio John
Date:
1888
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Credit: Anti Darwin / by the author of "Ceylon, ancient and modern". Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cended from the blue and barred rock pigeon.” He takes it as granted that the progenitors of the lion and horse, were primarily striped, but they may have been plain skinned. The feline family are so closely allied, they may be descended from a common ancestor with either a plain, spotted, or striped skin. If it was plain or striped, the cubs of a panther should be the same, which they are not but the pard sometimes has a black cub! It is difficult to see, why the young lion is the only feline that shows its ancestry? The lion is not the only feline with a plain skin. White and grey horses, when foals, are nearly black, and it might be argued from this, that the progenitor of horses was black. Swans are grey till two years old, when they become white: but some swans are black—Was the primal swan black or grey ? It seems impossible to account for colouring on any theory; there are striped and spotted species all through creation: and albinos often occur. Human albinos have buff hair and pale