The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life, Volume 1

Charles Darwin

AMS Press, 1972 - Science - 479 pages

Contents

• INTRODUCTION: 1
• VARIATION UNDER DOMESTICATION: 7
• CHAPTER II: 51

About the author

Charles Robert Darwin, born in 1809, was an English naturalist who founded the theory of Darwinism, the belief in evolution as determined by natural selection. Although Darwin studied medicine at Edinburgh University, and then studied at Cambridge University to become a minister, he had been interested in natural history all his life. His grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, was a noted English poet, physician, and botanist who was interested in evolutionary development. Darwin's works have had an incalculable effect on all aspects of the modern thought. Darwin's most famous and influential work, On the Origin of Species, provoked immediate controversy. Darwin's other books include Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. Charles Darwin died in 1882.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life, Volume 1; The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life, Charles Darwin, ISBN 0404084001, 9780404084004; Volumes 4-5 of Works, Charles Darwin
• Author: Charles Darwin
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: AMS Press, 1972
• Original from: University of Minnesota
• Digitized: May 22, 2018
• ISBN: 0404084044, 9780404084042
• Length: 479 pages
• Subjects: Science / General