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The taxonomic history of Black-shouldered Peafowl; with Darwin's help downgraded from species to variation
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2023-03-06
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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.
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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)
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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.
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0007-1595