...From the several foregoing facts we see that reversion in the feral state gives no indication of the colour or size of the aboriginal parent-species...
Charles Darwin 「The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.」
... livia, no breeder will doubt that the occasional appearance of blue birds thus characterised is accounted for on the well-known principle of "throwing back" or reversion...
Charles Darwin 「The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.」
...Why crossing should give so strong a tendency to reversion, we do not with certainty know; but abundant evidence of this fact will be given in the following chapters...
Charles Darwin 「The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.」
...These two distinct cases of reversion are often confounded together by those who have written on inheritance...
Charles Darwin 「The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.」
...This case of reversion is the more extraordinary as the Spanish breed has long been known to breed true, and no instance is on record of its throwing a single red feather...
Charles Darwin 「The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.」
...With respect to the extraordinary tendency which this tree exhibits to complete or partial reversion, we have seen that undoubted seminal hybrids and mongrels are similarly liable...
Charles Darwin 「The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.」
...A dog which I once possessed exhibited such reversion to ancestralhabits in a noteworthy way...
Various 「Dog Stories from the "Spectator"」
...The fact was that, alike incharacter and in outward appearance, he was a reversion to far-offancestors...
Charles G. D. Roberts 「The Watchers of the Trails」
...This dualism of course often led to actual division and reversion to the predynastic order of things, as, for instance, in the time of the XXIst Dynasty...
L.W. King and H.R. Hall 「History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, And Assyria In The Light Of Recent Discovery」
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