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To: muawiyah

A large amount of change in our cultivated plants, thus slowly and unconsciously accumulated, explains, as I believe, the well-known fact, that in a vast number of cases we cannot recognise, and therefore do not know, the wild parent-stocks of the plants which have been longest cultivated in our flower and kitchen gardens. If it has taken centuries or thousands of years to improve or modify most of our plants up to their present standard of usefulness to man, we can understand how it is that neither Australia, the Cape of Good Hope, nor any other region inhabited by quite uncivilised man, has afforded us a single plant worth culture. It is not that these countries, so rich in species, do not by a strange chance possess the aboriginal stocks of any useful plants, but that the native plants have not been improved by continued selection up to a standard of perfection comparable with that given to the plants in countries anciently civilised.


Darwin, Origin of Species Ch1

I thought you might like to see a paragraph from Origin, so that you might decide to actually read the whole book, rather than speculate on what it might contain on puppies.


35 posted on 02/28/2005 11:40:25 AM PST by shubi (Peace through superior firepower.)
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To: shubi
Darwin was not exactly correct in that statement you quoted.

In fact, the greater part of it was given over to his condemnation of dark skinned folks who didn't live like "civilized" people in the salons of London.

Are you trying to tell us that Darwin also came up with fascism, or what?

And what is it you are trying to tell the rest of us?

37 posted on 03/01/2005 1:34:13 AM PST by muawiyah ( (no /sarcasm tag this time))
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