Charles Darwin and the Theory of Natural Selection

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Author

Poulton, Edward Bagnall, Sir, 1856-1943

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E-text prepared by Fay Dunn, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)

Language

English

LoC Class

QH: Science: Natural history

Subject

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882

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Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 65779

Release Date

July 6, 2021

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.CHARLES DARWIN AND THE THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.Untitled
4. 4.INTRODUCTION
5. 5.CONTENTS
6. 6.Charles Darwin AND THE THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION.
7. 7.CHAPTER I. THE SECRET OF DARWIN’S GREATNESS.
8. 8.CHAPTER II. BOYHOOD—EDINBURGH—CAMBRIDGE (1817–31).
9. 9.CHAPTER III. VOYAGE OF THE “BEAGLE” (1831–36).
10. 10.CHAPTER IV. CAMBRIDGE—LONDON—WORK UPON THE COLLECTIONS—MARRIAGE—GEOLOGICAL WORK—JOURNAL OF THE VOYAGE—CORAL REEFS—FIRST RECORDED THOUGHTS ON EVOLUTION (1837–42).
11. 11.CHAPTER V. DOWN—GEOLOGY OF THE VOYAGE—WORK ON CIRRIPEDES (1842–54).
12. 12.CHAPTER VI. THE GROWTH OF THE “ORIGIN OF SPECIES” (1837–58).
13. 13.CHAPTER VII. GROWTH OF THE “ORIGIN” ( continued )—CORRESPONDENCE WITH FRIENDS.
14. 14.CHAPTER VIII. DARWIN AND WALLACE (1858).
15. 15.CHAPTER IX. DARWIN’S SECTION OF THE JOINT MEMOIR READ BEFORE THE LINNEAN SOCIETY JULY 1, 1858.
16. 16.CHAPTER X. WALLACE’S SECTION OF THE JOINT MEMOIR READ BEFORE THE LINNEAN SOCIETY JULY 1, 1858.
17. 17.CHAPTER XI. COMPARISON OF DARWIN’S AND WALLACE’S SECTIONS OF THE JOINT MEMOIR—RECEPTION OF THEIR VIEWS—THEIR FRIENDSHIP.
18. 18.CHAPTER XII. THE GROWTH OF WALLACE’S CONVICTIONS ON EVOLUTION AND DISCOVERY OF NATURAL SELECTION—BORNEO 1855—TERNATE 1858.
19. 19.CHAPTER XIII. CANON TRISTRAM THE FIRST PUBLICLY TO ACCEPT THE THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION (1859).
20. 20.CHAPTER XIV. THE PREPARATION OF “THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES” (1858–59).
21. 21.CHAPTER XV. THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES (1859).
22. 22.CHAPTER XVI. THE INFLUENCE OF DARWIN UPON LYELL (1859–64).
23. 23.CHAPTER XVII. INFLUENCE OF DARWIN UPON HOOKER AND ASA GRAY—NATURAL SELECTION AND DESIGN IN NATURE (1860–68).
24. 24.CHAPTER XVIII. INFLUENCE OF DARWIN UPON HUXLEY.
25. 25.CHAPTER XIX. THE DIFFICULTY WITH WHICH THE “ORIGIN” WAS UNDERSTOOD.
26. 26.CHAPTER XX. THE DIFFICULTY WITH WHICH THE “ORIGIN” WAS UNDERSTOOD ( continued )—VIEWS ON SPONTANEOUS GENERATION.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXI. VARIATION OF ANIMALS AND PLANTS UNDER DOMESTICATION: PANGENESIS (1868).
28. 28.CHAPTER XXII. PANGENESIS AND CONTINUITY OF THE GERM-PLASM: DARWIN’S CONFIDENCE IN PANGENESIS.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIII. DESCENT OF MAN—EXPRESSION OF EMOTIONS—EARTH-WORMS (1871–81).
30. 30.CHAPTER XXIV. BOTANICAL WORKS (1862–86).
31. 31.CHAPTER XXV. LETTERS FROM DARWIN TO PROFESSOR MELDOLA (1871–82).
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVI. HIS LAST ILLNESS (1882).
33. 33.FOOTNOTES
34. 34.INDEX.
35. 35.Transcriber’s Note

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