The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication

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Author

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882

Credits

Sue Asscher, Derek Thompson and Robert J. Robbins

Language

English

LoC Class

QH: Science: Natural history

Subject

Plants, Cultivated

Category

Text

eBook-No.

3332

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3332

Release Date

July 1, 2002

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — by Charles Darwin M.A., F.R.S., ETC. — VOLUMES ONE AND TWO — CONTENTS. — LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
2. 2.FOREWORD
3. 3.PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
4. 4.INTRODUCTION
5. 5.CHAPTER I. DOMESTIC DOGS AND CATS. — DOMESTIC CATS.
6. 6.CHAPTER II. HORSES AND ASSES. — THE ASS.
7. 7.CHAPTER III. PIGS—CATTLE—SHEEP—GOATS — CATTLE. — SHEEP. — GOATS.
8. 8.CHAPTER IV. DOMESTIC RABBITS.
9. 9.CHAPTER V. DOMESTIC PIGEONS. — GROUP I. — GROUP II. — GROUP III. — GROUP IV.
10. 10.CHAPTER VI. PIGEONS— continued.
11. 11.CHAPTER VII. FOWLS.
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII. DUCK—GOOSE—PEACOCK—TURKEY—GUINEA-FOWL—CANARY-BIRD—GOLD-FISH—RIVER-BEES—SILK-MOTHS. — THE GOOSE. — THE PEACOCK. — THE TURKEY. — THE GUINEA FOWL. — THE CANARY BIRD. — GOLD-FISH. — HIVE-BEES. — SILK-MOTHS.
13. 13.CHAPTER IX. CULTIVATED PLANTS: CEREAL AND CULINARY PLANTS.
14. 14.CHAPTER X. PLANTS continued —FRUITS—ORNAMENTAL TREES—FLOWERS. — USEFUL AND ORNAMENTAL TREES. — FLOWERS.
15. 15.CHAPTER XI. ON BUD-VARIATION, AND ON CERTAIN ANOMALOUS MODES OF REPRODUCTION AND VARIATION.
16. 16.CHAPTER XII. INHERITANCE.
17. 17.CHAPTER XIII. INHERITANCE continued —REVERSION OF ATAVISM.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIV. INHERITANCE continued —FIXEDNESS OF CHARACTER—PREPOTENCY—SEXUAL LIMITATION—CORRESPONDENCE OF AGE.
19. 19.CHAPTER XV. ON CROSSING.
20. 20.CHAPTER XVI. CAUSES WHICH INTERFERE WITH THE FREE CROSSING OF VARIETIES—INFLUENCE OF DOMESTICATION ON FERTILITY.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVII. ON THE GOOD EFFECTS OF CROSSING, AND ON THE EVIL EFFECTS OF CLOSE INTERBREEDING.
22. 22.CHAPTER XVIII. ON THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF CHANGED CONDITIONS OF LIFE: STERILITY FROM VARIOUS CAUSES.
23. 23.CHAPTER XIX. SUMMARY OF THE FOUR LAST CHAPTERS, WITH REMARKS ON HYBRIDISM.
24. 24.CHAPTER XX. SELECTION BY MAN.
25. 25.CHAPTER XXI. SELECTION, continued.
26. 26.CHAPTER XXII. CAUSES OF VARIABILITY.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXIII. DIRECT AND DEFINITE ACTION OF THE EXTERNAL CONDITIONS OF LIFE.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXIV. LAWS OF VARIATION—USE AND DISUSE, ETC.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXV. LAWS OF VARIATION, continued. —CORRELATED VARIABILITY.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXVI. LAWS OF VARIATION, continued. —SUMMARY.
31. 31.CHAPTER XXVII. PROVISIONAL HYPOTHESIS OF PANGENESIS. — PART I. — PART II.
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVIII. CONCLUDING REMARKS.
33. 33.INDEX

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