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The idea that females might be using their horns to fight other females is never considered in the many pages of Darwin’s thoughtful conjecture. Instead he concludes that although such armaments must be a ‘waste of vital power’, their presence or absence in females depends not on them being ‘of any special use, but simply in inheritance
