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(Colour Mammalia)

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we have seen, they differ in colour the male differs from the females, especially in the naked parts of the skin, & as well as in the development of their the beard, whiskers & mane. Many species are coloured either in so extraordinary or so beautiful a manner, that we must can hardly avoid looking at the colours, & the at the varied tufts or curls of hair, as merely gained for the sake of ornamental; for it is in is hardly scarcely conceivable that such colours & tufts such elegantly arranged elegant tufts of hair are can be the result of mere useless variability, & it is purposeless variation, & it is inconceivable that they can be are can be of any direct use to these species animals. If so, we may conclude that they it is highly probable that the ornaments have been gained through sexual selection, & in most cases transmitted with equally or nearly equally transmission to both sexes. In the greater size & strength, & in the greater development of the canine teeth of many numerous in the males of many kinds of monkeys we have other evidence of the action of sexual selection. I will now give a few