Charles Darwin's Natural selection : being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858
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Charles Darwin's Natural selection : being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858
Cambridge University Press, 1987, c1975
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Natural selection
On the origin of species
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Bibliography: p. 587-[629]
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species is unquestionably one of the chief landmarks in biology. The Origin (as it is widely known) was literally only an abstract of the manuscript Darwin had originally intended to complete and publish as the formal presentation of his views on evolution. Compared with the Origin, his original long manuscript work on Natural Selection, which is presented here and made available for the first time in printed form, has more abundant examples and illustrations of Darwin's argument, plus an extensive citation of sources.
Table of Contents
- Commonly use symbols and abbreviation code
- Acknowledgements
- General introduction
- 1. Editorial considerations
- 2. Darwin's table of contents
- 3. Possibility of all organic beings crossing
- 4. Variation under nature
- 5. The struggle for existence
- 6. On natural selection
- 7. Laws of variation
- 8. Difficulties on the theory
- 9. Hybridism
- 10. Mental powers and instincts of animals
- 11. Geographical distribution
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Guides to the texts of the long and short versions
- Collation between the Origin and Natural Selection
- Index.
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