The taxonomic history of Black-shouldered Peafowl; with Darwin's help downgraded from species to variation
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2023-03-06Submitted date
2022-09-07
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In the 19th century the black-shouldered variety of Indian Peafowl Pavo cristatus was erroneously viewed by many as a separate species, named P. nigripennis. Others had doubts about its taxonomic status, but Darwin presented firm evidence for it being a variety under domestication, which treatment is now well established and accepted. It being a colour variation rather than a wild species was important for Darwin to prove, as otherwise it could undermine his theory of slow modification by natural selection in the wild.Citation
Hein van Grouw, Wim Dekkers "The taxonomic history of Black-shouldered Peafowl; with Darwin's help downgraded from species to variation," Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club, 143(1), 111-121, (6 March 2023)Publisher
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Copyright: © 2023 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 version of the article.ISSN
0007-1595ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.25226/bboc.v143i1.2023.a7
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