Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-10-04

nence VIII De the most likoly TO perish for
lack of sustenance. Natural selection equal
ly explains why animals which have beeh
Tor several generations domesticated no
longer retain, without considerable devia-
tion, their protective style of coloring.
Freed from the exigencies of wild life
there Is no longer an imperious neod
for concealment and hence the unflvora-
bly-colored individuals survive like the
rest, and variety appears among members
of the same species.
INSECTS AND FLOWERS.
The colorings of the insect world furnish
also abundant corroborative proof of the
| truth OF the theory. The cases of protec-
| tive mimicry are the most wonde erful of all.
Various species of butterflies which are
beautifully colored are never eaten by
binds on account of nauseous liquid
which exudes from them when touched,
and other insects which do not possess this
.disagreeable gift are exact copies of them
In external appearance though not in
structure. In many cases tho gorgeous tints
Q the otherwise protected male animal are
Sdne TO the continual Iseisction of the moro
beautiful males by the females to this
cause is due the magnificent plumage of
| the male bird OF Paradise. And when this
kind of selection is taken in connection
with the need for protective concealment
we have the means of explaining by far the
greater part of the coloring found in the
animal Kingdom. The colors of The vege-
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SUCCESS
MAN cohfAHED WITH APES.
lnat man. cohsiuereu from purely ZOO
los'cni point Vi view, ulhers hluch less
iroui tne h'shcr apes thah these dlnef from
'he lower Is generally acknowledged by
haturalistS, yet there are sundry respects
III which man mas become very widely at
ierehualed from the hishcst apes. The So
cill ieeiIhSs' inc use oil artlculate language,
thc construction OF toois. habltations and
clo'"'he' an" ihc increased aoilty 10 adapt
HIS "ct'o"S 10 iu'ure coh'lhSchc'es' are oo-
VlousIy dependent upon Inc relatively
great slZo anu coihpieAhy Oh tue upper To-
peS - MS Drain. lhe ProDable aciion of
natural selection upon 'he Drain Is, there
iore, the most interesting and important
point cohhec'eu win Inc origin oil man
Kind. Mr.. Darwin shows that the higher
apes manifest certain social feelings as
sympathy ana hdeiity; that they employ
stones ana cubs as weapons in lighting,
peslues using Sticks as levers, and stones
as hammers, ana that without possessing
aftlculate speech, they are nevertheless able
n.e''" ''"or ny n'e""s
'',iD g. : o'i' eo"'e,i'Por-
a'y "io' ,"u ''' Mio" man "ou'u seen,
" nav ''"'',' !" '''''u saw great er""'a.
o1r'e'''' my '"7 ,'o"D,'o' a." '"''U"seu
po"V' ~ ''"' o0'''"'"'''o"' anu perhaps
'"e "'''' "'ou 'o' 'oo'S anu
Weapons "'',ei '"o e'ii "iah pos
soeS0H AZ e"'"'o ""so Vi "o' ''iino' Dc
ue'0' '''''0u i"' s'""''"s i"oe vi ape
ilhc ii'c" UT "'"",l'Nc "pcs' Sucu as natural
se'ectloh hi'Snt nave ueVeiopeo from an
cleht apes no hlSher IMAM the modern chim-
paiizee or oranS' we hole now IN course oil
llh'e 'he ACTON Oh natural seiectioh would
be more ana more conhned TO modifying
the cerebral structure oil the race. Among
the lower ahliiials' even those whlch are
gregariouS the preservation of any indi-
vidual deDends almost entirely unon his
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'''" ~ ''''o "'"'''' ''a''''"0e' '"'t an ihus'
oe c'Pao'c "uo WIN" s"'NNc' WIN .ne
eariiest n'a"'ies'"'ions Vi 'ruo society TINS
s'a'c Oh 'h'"ss Is so'no"na' a''ero"' Eve"
III 'hc ruuos' "o,uai or 'niaH.'"o'o society
there Is SOME uiNis'oh oi Iapor ana soule
l'u'u'i "ss's'a"oo-so .nat ''ose WHO i'''
pe'o" '"o "'oi"se V"P"o'ii'y Vi 'ne i'ce"l
ho "se' sure " oc P'o"'"'u'o'S o"' o''
anu .n"s ''o "scn'y Vi ""'"'"' se'cc''o" III
keeping up u'i'ior''' s''hu"ru o, h'nessis ~
u s'"'o oN'on' c"eoNe'' !" '"o his"iy
coulpieA soc'e'ieS "hicn VIC can ciNi'IHeu'
DIVISION o' ''oor anu eo-operat'o" nave
greatly opscuIeu Tue ehec's oi ."is agency
but rs natural seiec.ioh among ihuiViuual
gro" icss i'so'o"s' us o"ec's "Poh rlNa' vi
an''son'1''e 9oe'.'.'S oooo'',o '''o'o mar "eu'
d" "o i"'''"'es "''0n 'o"" W nam " 9"''o-
y s'io"S """ uu.'oe' VIZ" 'o'o'o"oo W
Su'.o""u'"s 'o',o''v' arc ,"o "''r'o"'eS
"'''n '''"'"' So'oI',on ', "''' "o" o''enS
i"Nor' a ne" 'ois'ue,a''o" Is 'n,s' i"'e-
,ho ,irot nd Vi''ny ny ~ V,"nsG' III
lection deals Chiefly with sucb chances to
tn visible modification of their bodily
STRUCTURE
PROBABLE RAPIDITY OF cEREnRAL DEvEL.
OPMENT.