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The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication follows from the first chapters of On the Origin of Species. Volume 1 deals with variations introduced into species as a result of domestication. It is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century scientific investigation and a key text in the development of Darwin's evolutionary theories.

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Introduction; 1. Domestic dogs and cats; 2. Horses and asses; 3. Pigs, cattle, sheep, goats; 4. Domestic rabbits; 5. Domestic pigeons; 6. Pigeons continued; 7. Fowls; 8. Ducks, goose, peacock, turkey, guinea-fowl, canary-bird, gold-fish, hive-bees, silk-moths; 9. Cultivated plants: cereal and culinary plants; 10. Plants continued: fruits, ornamental trees, flower; 11. On bud-variation, and on certain anomalous modes of reproduction and variation.

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 6/3/2010 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781108014229, 978-1108014229
      ISBN10: 1108014224
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication follows from the first chapters of On the Origin of Species. Volume 1 deals with variations introduced into species as a result of domestication. It is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century scientific investigation and a key text in the development of Darwin's evolutionary theories.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction; 1. Domestic dogs and cats; 2. Horses and asses; 3. Pigs, cattle, sheep, goats; 4. Domestic rabbits; 5. Domestic pigeons; 6. Pigeons continued; 7. Fowls; 8. Ducks, goose, peacock, turkey, guinea-fowl, canary-bird, gold-fish, hive-bees, silk-moths; 9. Cultivated plants: cereal and culinary plants; 10. Plants continued: fruits, ornamental trees, flower; 11. On bud-variation, and on certain anomalous modes of reproduction and variation.

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