RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Pallas, Spicilegia zoologica Fasc. CUL-DAR85.B119. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 3.2022. 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 volumes CUL-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).
Darwin cited this in Descent, vol. 2.
[B119]
Polygamy
Pallas. Spicilegia zoologica Fasc. 12th. 1777
p. 29 - Antilope Saiga - the strongest drives away all rivals & collects a herd of almost a hundred females & kids - so more polygamous even than Seals - Owen in his Table (about [Larnicas]) shows that many Antilopes pair - but so variable is Polygamy that the progenitors of many species not now polygamous may have been so.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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