ANIMAL BEAUTY.
Animal beauty hag certainly improved aa timo has gone on. The ancient reptiles rivalled one another in hideousness of form, and the more ancient types of mammals, which have survived to our own day are grotesquely ugly ; such, for insatnce ; •as the elephant, the hippopotamus, tho rhinoceros, and even that useful friond of man, the pig. Most of their early contemporaries se^em to have been still uglier, but at least they did not live to distress the artistic eye of man with their uncouth forms. And man himself has much improved upon the ancient Miocene form. Though the law of natural selection plays a less important part in the development of species than wo once thoughts it did, at least we can give to its action tho credit of having made improvements in beauty. — " Studies in Evolution andßiology," by Alice Bodington*' ' '■ y .
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 9294, 21 January 1892, Page 4
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144ANIMAL BEAUTY. Taranaki Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 9294, 21 January 1892, Page 4
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