Nature on Display

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"Generally, the most vigorous males, those which are best fitted for their places in nature, will leave the most progeny. But in many cases, victory will depend not on general vigor, but on having special weapons, confined to the male sex. A hornless stag or spurless cock would have a poor chance of leaving offspring."

Charles Darwin, Origin of Species (1859)

 

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