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ACCORDING to Darwin the long neck of the giraffe is the result of natural selection acting through the animal's tree-feeding habit. He wrote: “the individuals which were the highest browsers and were able during dearths to reach even an inch or two above the others will often have been preserved”1.
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Darwin, C., “Origin of Species” (John Murray, 1859).
Brazier Howell, A., “Speed in Animals” (University of Chicago Press, 1944).
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PINCHER, C. Evolution of the Giraffe. Nature 164, 29–30 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164029b0
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