Some newer attempts to deal with this question are
worse than the older incorrect explanations. For example, in
answer to the question ‘How did the giraffe acquire its long
neck?’ Kuttner51 stated ‘Not as you may think, by stretching
its neck to reach foliage in tall trees. It is because of
the giraffes’ mating with antetypes that had longer necks,
that this species outlived those with shorter necks. This is
an example of natural-selection theory as propounded’ by
Darwin. This raises the question ‘Where did the hypothetical
antetypes come from and why did they evolve?’