. The Audubon magazine . UPPER OF HESPERORNIS HALF NATURAL UPPER OF ICTHYORNIS TWICE NATURAL SIZE. became birds, and some let their hair grow,and became kangaroos and opossums, andgave up laying eggs as their fathers, orrather I should say, their mothers, hadalways done before them. A good many people laughed at thistheory of Darwins, for they said that,although circumstances and habits alterthe character of man or any other animal,they cannot alter the species, or sort. Itwas true, of course, that if a woman diedand left two little infant girls, and one wasadopted b
. The Audubon magazine . UPPER OF HESPERORNIS HALF NATURAL UPPER OF ICTHYORNIS TWICE NATURAL SIZE. became birds, and some let their hair grow,and became kangaroos and opossums, andgave up laying eggs as their fathers, orrather I should say, their mothers, hadalways done before them. A good many people laughed at thistheory of Darwins, for they said that,although circumstances and habits alterthe character of man or any other animal,they cannot alter the species, or sort. Itwas true, of course, that if a woman diedand left two little infant girls, and one wasadopted by a family of wealth and refine-ment, and the other brought up in an in-stitution and then sent to work on a farm, a few thousand years in domestication, avisit to a dog show showed that they hadbeen changed in ever so many would suppose that the mastiffs, theNewfoundland dogs, the blood hounds,and bull dogs, and greyhounds, and Italiangreyhounds, and spaniels and pug dogsand toy terriers, all came from one family?And yet there is no doubt that they
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