Origin of Species Variorum

→ on an average vary 1866 1869 1872

vary on an average 1859 1860 1861

→ OMIT 1861 1866 1869 1872

I do not think 1859 1860

→ times, 1866 1869 1872

records, more especially 1859 1860 1861

→ lake-habitations of Switzerland, much diversity in 1866 1869 1872

breeds; and that some of 1859 1860 1861

→ and that some of these ancient breeds closely resemble or are even 1866 1869

closely resemble, perhaps are 1859 1860 1861

and that some of these ancient breeds closely resemble, or are even 1872

→ commerce 1866 1869

carried on commerce 1872

our domesticated productions; but how could a savage possibly know, when he first tamed an animal, whether it would vary in succeeding generations, and whether it would endure other climates? Has the little variability of the ass

or guinea-fowl,

and goose,

or the small power of endurance of warmth by the

rein-deer,

reindeer,

or of cold by the common

camel

camel,

prevented their domestication? I cannot doubt that if other animals and plants, equal in number to our domesticated productions, and belonging to equally diverse classes and countries, were taken from a state of nature, and could be made to breed for an equal number of generations under domestication, they would →on an average vary as largely as the parent species of our existing domesticated productions have varied.

In the case of most of our anciently domesticated animals and plants, →OMIT it is

possible

not possible

to come to any definite conclusion, whether they

are

have

descended from one or several

species.

wild species.

The argument mainly relied on by those who believe in the multiple origin of our domestic animals is, that we find in the most ancient →times, on the monuments of Egypt,

much diversity

and

in the →lake-habitations of Switzerland, much diversity in the

breeds

breeds;

→and that some of these ancient breeds closely resemble or are even identical

with,

with

those still existing. But this only throws far backwards the history of

civilisation,

civilization,

and shows that animals were domesticated at a much earlier period than has hitherto been supposed. The lake-inhabitants of Switzerland cultivated several kinds of wheat and barley, the pea, the poppy for oil, and flax; and they possessed several domesticated

animals.

animals;

They

they

~~had~~

had

also →commerce with other nations. All this clearly shows, as Heer has remarked, that they had at this early age progressed considerably in

civilisation;

civilization;

and this again implies a

long continued

long-continued

previous period of less advanced

civilisation,

civilization,

during which