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The diminution of fertility may be explained free downloadable songs in some cases by the profligacy of the women (as until lately with the Tahitians), but Mr. Fenton has shewn that this explanation by no means suffices with the New Zealanders, nor does it with the Tasmanians. Macnamara gives reasons for believing that the inhabitants of districts subject to malaria are apt to be sterile; but this cannot apply in several of free downloadable songs the above cases. Some writers have suggested that the free word download aborigines of islands have suffered in fertility and health from long continued inter-breeding; but in the above cases infertility has coincided too closely with the arrival of Europeans for us to admit this explanation.

Nor have we at present any reason to believe that man is highly sensitive to the evil effects of inter-breeding, especially in areas so large as New Zealand, and the Sandwich archipelago with its diversified stations.

On the contrary, it is known that the present inhabitants of Norfolk Island are nearly all cousins or free downloadable songs near relations, as are the Todas in India, and the inhabitants of some of the Western Islands of Scotland; and yet they seem not to have suffered in fertility. On the close relationship of the Norfolk Islanders, Sir W.

Mitchell, 'Edinburgh Medical Journal,' March to June, 1865.) A much more probable view is suggested by the analogy of the lower animals.

The free downloadable songs reproductive system can be shewn to be susceptible free downloadable songs to an extraordinary degree (though why we know not) to changed conditions of life; and this susceptibility leads both to beneficial and to evil results.

A large collection of facts on this subject is given in free downloadable songs chap. of my 'Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication,' I can here give only the briefest free downloadable songs abstract; and every one interested in the subject may consult the above work.

Very slight changes increase the free downloadable songs health, vigour, and fertility of most or all organic beings, whilst other changes are known to render a large number of animals sterile. One of the most familiar cases, is that of tamed elephants not breeding in India; though they often breed in Ava, where the females are allowed to roam about the free downloadable songs forests to some extent, and are thus placed under free downloadable songs more natural conditions.

The case of various American monkeys, both sexes of which have been kept for many years together in their own countries, and yet have very rarely or never bred, is a more free downloadable songs apposite instance, because of their relationship to man.

It is remarkable how slight a change in the conditions often induces sterility in a download powerpoint 2007 wild animal when captured; and this is the more strange as all our domesticated animals have become more fertile than they were in a state of nature; and some of them can resist the most unnatural conditions with free downloadable songs undiminished fertility. For the evidence on this head, see 'free downloadable songs Variation of Animals,' etc., vol. 111.) Certain groups of animals are much more liable than others to be affected by captivity; and generally all the species of the same group are affected in the same manner. But sometimes a single species in a group is rendered sterile, whilst the others are not so; on the other hand, a single species may retain free downloadable songs its fertility whilst most of the others fail to breed. The males and females of some species when confined, or when allowed to live almost, but not quite free, in their native country, never unite; others thus circumstanced frequently unite but never produce offspring; others again produce some offspring, but fewer than in a state of nature; and as bearing on the free downloadable songs above cases of man, it is important to remark that the young are apt to be weak and sickly, or malformed, and to perish at an free downloadable songs early age. Seeing how general is this law of free downloadable songs the susceptibility of the reproductive system to changed conditions of life, and that it holds good with free downloadable songs our nearest allies, the Quadrumana, I can hardly doubt that it applies to man in his primeval state. Hence if savages of any race are induced suddenly to change their habits of life, they become more free downloadable songs or less sterile, and their young offspring suffer in health, in the same manner and from the same cause, as do the elephant and hunting-leopard in India, many monkeys in America, and a host of animals of all kinds, on removal from their natural conditions. We can see why it is that aborigines, who have long inhabited islands, and who must free downloadable songs have been long exposed to nearly uniform conditions, should be specially affected by any change in their habits, as seems to be the case. Civilised races can certainly resist changes of all kinds far better than savages; and in this respect they resemble domesticated animals, for though the latter sometimes suffer in gtalk download health (for instance European dogs in India), yet they are free downloadable songs rarely rendered sterile, though a few such instances have free downloadable songs been recorded.

16.) The immunity of civilised races and domesticated animals is probably due to their having been subjected to a greater extent, and therefore having grown somewhat more accustomed, to diversified or varying conditions, than the majority of wild animals; and to their having formerly immigrated or been carried from country to country, and to different families or sub-races having inter-crossed.