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MR. CHAPMAN PINCHER has given1 an explanation of the development of the long neck of the giraffe that, as he says, occurred to him one day this spring while watching the giraffes in the Zoo. Mr. Pincher's explanation gains added support from the fact that it has been advanced, with perhaps rather more cogency, by Robert Broom2 and by myself3. A more accessible source is perhaps my “Hallmarks of Mankind", p. 68. In this matter Mr. Pincher is in good company, for, as Broom says, ”Lamarck recognized that the lengthening of the limbs came first, but Darwin did not".
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JONES, F. Evolution of the Giraffe. Nature 164, 323 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164323b0
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