but I can hardly suppose that domestic rabbits have often been selected for tameness alone; so that we must attribute at least the greater part of the inherited change from extreme wildness to extreme tameness, to habit and long-continued close confinement.
baina nekez pentsa nezake etxe-untxiak mantsotasun hutsaren arabera sarri hautetsi direnik; eta, horregatik, azturari eta hesipean luzaro izanari iratxeki behar diegu basatasun handienetik mantsotasun handienera aldatze heredagarriaren zatirik handiena bederen.