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dc.contributor.authorvan Grouw, Hein
dc.contributor.authorDekkers, W
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-16T12:58:43Z
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dc.date.issued2019-12-16
dc.date.submitted2020-01-14
dc.identifier.citationHein van Grouw, Wim Dekkers "Various Gallus varius hybrids: variation in junglefowl hybrids and Darwin's interest in them," Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club, 139(4), 355-371, (16 December 2019)en_US
dc.identifier.issn0007-1595
dc.identifier.doi10.25226/bboc.v139i4.2019.a9
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10141/622603
dc.description.abstractHybrids between Green Junglefowl Gallus varius and domestic fowl G. gallus domesticus confused several 19th-century ornithologists. The plumage of these hybrids is so unlike the colours and patterns of either of the parent species that they were considered to be distinct species: G. aeneusTemminck, 1825; G. temminckiiGray, 1849; and G. violaceusKelsall, 1891. Darwin wanted to understand if G. aeneus and G. temminckii were hybrids or species, as part of his research on the origin of the domestic chicken. His view was that all domesticated fowl have a single wild ancestor, Red Junglefowl G. gallus (formerly G. bankiva). A hybrid specimen now present in the bird collection of the Natural History Museum at Tring played an important role in Darwin's reasoning and, although the conclusions he drew from this specimen were incorrect, his single-ancestor origin theory for domesticated fowl stands. ‘These hybrids were at one time thought to be specifically distinct, and were named G. aeneus. Mr. Blyth and others believe that the G. Temminckii is a similar hybrid' (Darwin 1868a: 234–235).en_US
dc.publisherBritish Ornithologists' Cluben_US
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dc.titleVarious Gallus varius hybrids: variation in junglefowl hybrids and Darwin's interest in themen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dc.identifier.journalBulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Cluben_US
dc.identifier.volume139en_US
dc.identifier.issue4en_US
dc.identifier.startpage355 - 355en_US
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elements.import.authorvan Grouw, Hen_US
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dc.description.nhm© 2019 The Authors; This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. The attached file is the published pdf.en_US
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dc.subject.nhmGallusen_US
dc.subject.nhmsexual dimorphismen_US
dc.subject.nhmHybridisationen_US
dc.subject.nhmCharles Darwinen_US
dc.subject.nhmDomesticated fowlen_US
dc.subject.nhmVariationen_US
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