The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2
by Charles Darwin
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About this eBook
- Author
- Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
- Credits
- This etext was prepared by Sue Asscher from the etext prepared by Robert J. Robbins, PhD of the ESP Project
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QH: Science: Natural history
- Subject
- Plants, Cultivated
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 2872
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2872
- Release Date
- October 1, 2001
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE VARIATION OF
- 2.CONTENTS. — CHAPTER 2.XIII.—INHERITANCE continued—REVERSION OR ATAVISM. — CHAPTER 2.XIV.—INHERITANCE continued.—FIXEDNESS OF CHARACTER—PREPOTENCY— SEXUAL LIMITATION—CORRESPONDENCE OF AGE. — CHAPTER 2.XV.—ON CROSSING. — CHAPTER 2.XVI.—CAUSES WHICH INTERFERE WITH THE FREE CROSSING OF VARIETIES— INFLUENCE OF DOMESTICATION ON FERTILITY. — CHAPTER 2.XVII.—ON THE GOOD EFFECTS OF CROSSING, AND ON THE EVIL EFFECTS OF CLOSE INTERBREEDING. — CHAPTER 2.XVIII.—ON THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF CHANGED CONDITIONS OF LIFE: STERILITY FROM VARIOUS CAUSES. — CHAPTER 2.XIX.—SUMMARY OF THE FOUR LAST CHAPTERS, WITH REMARKS ON HYBRIDISM. — CHAPTER 2.XX.—SELECTION BY MAN. — CHAPTER 2.XXI.—SELECTION, continued. — CHAPTER 2.XXII.—CAUSES OF VARIABILITY.
- 3.CHAPTER 2.XXIII.—DIRECT AND DEFINITE ACTION OF THE EXTERNAL CONDITIONS OF LIFE. — CHAPTER 2.XXIV.—LAWS OF VARIATION—USE AND DISUSE, ETC. — CHAPTER 2.XXV.—LAWS OF VARIATION, continued.—CORRELATED VARIABILITY. — CHAPTER 2.XXVI.—LAWS OF VARIATION, continued.—SUMMARY. — CHAPTER 2.XXVII.—PROVISIONAL HYPOTHESIS OF PANGENESIS. — CHAPTER 2.XXVIII.—CONCLUDING REMARKS. — INDEX. — THE VARIATION OF ANIMALS AND PLANTS UNDER DOMESTICATION. — VOLUME II. — CHAPTER 2.XIV. — CHAPTER 2.XV. — CHAPTER 2.XVI. — CHAPTER 2.XVII. — CHAPTER 2.XVIII. — CHAPTER 2.XIX. — CHAPTER 2.XX. — CHAPTER 2.XXI. — CHAPTER 2.XXII. — CHAPTER 2.XXIII. — CHAPTER 2.XXIV. — CHAPTER 2.XXV. — CHAPTER 2.XXVI. — CHAPTER 2.XXVII. — CHAPTER 2.XXVIII. — INDEX. — END OF VOLUME II.
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