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best animals & thus improve them; & the improved individuals they are valued more then probably sp. modified the slowly spread in the immediate neighbourhood, & slowly spread. But As yet they will have hardly have distinct names, & from being only slightly valued, their history will hardly be remembered disregarded. When further improved by the same slow & gradual process they will spread more widely, & will get recognised as something distinct & valuable, & will then probably first receive a name. In semi-civilised countries, with little freer communication, the spreading & knowledge of any new sub-breed would be very slow. As soon as the point of value of the new sub-breed was once recog acknowledged, there would always be a tendency slowly to augment the modification slowly whatever their nature to augment, by owing to what I have called unconscious selection

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