RECORD: Darwin, C. R. CUL-DAR80.B23 (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

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Man

Sedgwick No' 4. p. 170 Twin-bearing strongly inherited like fertile sheep &c.

Baldness almost secondary sexual charcter in Males —

No reversion — no large families

It is probable that as with Domestic animals are more fertile than their wild aborigens, so are civilized or domticated man compared with savages— — Hereditry as also with domstic animals — at least


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