"Finally, as a common consequence of domestication and cultivation there are unlimited and almost continuous variability, and the same part or the same body vary in different individuals or even different the opposite way, and since the same change, if only it is highly expressed, commonly returns only after long periods of time every special modification, if it is not stored carefully man is lost through the crossing, reversion or random the destruction of the varying individuals" (Vol. II, 292). Remember that though humanity has not escaped the influence of factors domestication and culture, but still it was not like home animals under the influence of such factors, select and retain modifications. Hence, between people due to one natural selection could be the usual continuous disappearance of different useful modifications special properties that could appear. Only then, when these modifications were purely of a protective nature, as, for example, most cunning, peculiar to the barbarous condition of the people, - only in such cases, we can expect the exceptional participation natural selection. We can't assume that the less significant especially, though, for example, aesthetic ideas, could evolution due to natural selection. If we assume all such cases, the inheritance of functional changes occurred and the body, in this case, the development of less significant features will become quite understandable.
"Finally, as a common consequence of domestication and cultivation
ReplyDeletethere are unlimited and almost continuous variability, and the same part
or the same body vary in different individuals or even different
the opposite way, and since the same change, if only it is highly
expressed, commonly returns only after long periods of time
every special modification, if it is not stored carefully
man is lost through the crossing, reversion or random
the destruction of the varying individuals" (Vol. II, 292).
Remember that though humanity has not escaped the influence of factors
domestication and culture, but still it was not like home
animals under the influence of such factors, select and retain
modifications. Hence, between people due to one
natural selection could be the usual continuous disappearance of different
useful modifications special properties that could appear. Only
then, when these modifications were purely of a protective nature,
as, for example, most cunning, peculiar to the barbarous condition of the people, -
only in such cases, we can expect the exceptional participation
natural selection. We can't assume that the less significant
especially, though, for example, aesthetic ideas, could
evolution due to natural selection. If we assume all
such cases, the inheritance of functional changes occurred and the body,
in this case, the development of less significant features will become quite
understandable.