RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1870-1871]. Draft of Descent 2: 304-5. CUL-DAR78.66r. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 2.2023. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.
The text of the draft corresponds to Descent 2: 304-5. Darwin later changed the first name given here to Hyomoschus aquaticus, the Mouse deer.
[66r]
(viz Moschus aquaticus), [top of page excised]
striped, the males having large canine teeth instead of horns, & resembling in various osteological characters the common parent ancestor of our existing pachydermatous & ruminant animals.*(59)
(If in accordance with our previous remarks we admit that the spots in the case of deer & the stripes in the case of Pigs were probably first acquired by some ancient progenitor of this Deer Family, & stripes by some groups forms through sexual
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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