Variation of animals and plants under domestication
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Variation of animals and plants under domestication
(The works of Charles Darwin / edited by Paul H. Barrett & R.B. Freeman, v. 19-20)
W. Pickering, 1988
- v. 1
- v. 2
- Other Title
-
Variation under domestication
Available at / 30 libraries
-
International Research Center for Japanese Studies Library
v. 1QH||365||Da00190579,
v. 2QH||365||Da00190580 -
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Note
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
-
v. 1 ISBN 9781851963096
Description
The nineteenth volume in a 29-volume set which contain all Charles Darwin's published works. Darwin was one of the most influential figures of the 19th century. His work remains a central subject of study in the history of ideas, the history of science, zoology, botany, geology and evolution.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- I: Domestic Dogs and Cats
- II: Horses and Asses
- III: Pigs - Cattle - Sheep - Goats
- IV: Domestic Rabbits
- V: Domestic Pigeons
- VI: Pigeons
- VII: Fowls
- VIII: Duck - Goose - Peacock - Guinea Fowl - Canary Bird - Goldfish - Hive-Bees - Silk-Moths
- IX: Cultivated Plants: Cereal and Culinary Plants
- X: Plants - Fruits - Ornamental Trees - Flowers
- XI: On Bud-Variation, and on Certain Anomalous Modes of Reproduction and Variation
- XII: Inheritance
- Volume
-
v. 2 ISBN 9781851963102
Description
The twentieth volume in a 29-volume set which contain all Charles Darwin's published works. Darwin was one of the most influential figures of the 19th century. His work remains a central subject of study in the history of ideas, the history of science, zoology, botany, geology and evolution.
Table of Contents
- Chapter XIII Inheritance continued - Reversion or Atavism
- Chapter XIV Inheritance continued, - Fixedness of Character - Prepotency - Sexual Limitation - Correspondence of Age
- Chapter XV On Crossing
- Chapter XVI Causes Which Interfere with the Free Crossing of Varieties - Influence of Domestication on Fertility
- Chapter XVII On the Good Effects of Crossing, and on the Evil Effects of Close Interbreeding
- Chapter XVIII On The Advantages and Disadvantages of Changed Conditions of Life: Sterility from Various Causes
- Chapter XIX Summary of the Four Last Chapters, with Remarks on Hybridism
- Chapter XX Selection by Man
- Chapter XXI Selection Continued
- Chapter XXII Causes of Variability
- Chapter XXIII Direct and Definite Action of the External Conditions of Life
- Chapter XXIV Laws of Variation - use and Disuse, Etc.
- Chapter XXV Laws of Variation continued - Correlated Variability
- Chapter XXVI Laws of Variation continued - Summary
- Chapter XXVII Provisional Hypothesis of Pangenesis
- Chapter XXVIII Concluding Remarks
by "Nielsen BookData"