On the Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin
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About this eBook
- Author
- Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
- Title
- On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
- Credits
- Sue Asscher and David Widger
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QH: Science: Natural history
- Subject
- Natural selection
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 1228
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1228
- Release Date
- March 1, 1998
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.On the Origin of Species — BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION, — OR THE PRESERVATION OF FAVOURED RACES IN THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE. — By Charles Darwin, M.A., — Fellow Of The Royal, Geological, Linnæan, Etc., Societies; Author Of ‘Journal Of Researches During H.M.S. Beagle’s Voyage Round The World.’ LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1859. — Contents — DETEAILED CONTENTS. ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES.
- 2.ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES.
- 3.INTRODUCTION.
- 4.CHAPTER I. VARIATION UNDER DOMESTICATION.
- 5.CHAPTER II. VARIATION UNDER NATURE.
- 6.CHAPTER III. STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE.
- 7.CHAPTER IV. NATURAL SELECTION.
- 8.CHAPTER V. LAWS OF VARIATION.
- 9.CHAPTER VI. DIFFICULTIES ON THEORY.
- 10.CHAPTER VII. INSTINCT.
- 11.CHAPTER VIII. HYBRIDISM.
- 12.CHAPTER IX. ON THE IMPERFECTION OF THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD.
- 13.CHAPTER X. ON THE GEOLOGICAL SUCCESSION OF ORGANIC BEINGS.
- 14.CHAPTER XI. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION.
- 15.CHAPTER XII. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION— continued .
- 16.CHAPTER XIII. MUTUAL AFFINITIES OF ORGANIC BEINGS: MORPHOLOGY: EMBRYOLOGY: RUDIMENTARY ORGANS.
- 17.CHAPTER XIV. RECAPITULATION AND CONCLUSION.
- 18.INDEX.
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