The origin of species : by means of natural selection of the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life (Signet classics)
by Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
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States the evidence for a theory of evolution, explains how evolution takes place, and discusses instinct, hybridism, fossils, distribution and classification. Full description
Table of Contents:
- Variation under domestication
- Variation under nature
- Struggle for existence
- Natural selection; or The survival of the fittest
- Laws of variation
- Difficulties of the theory
- Miscellaneous objections to the theory of natural selection
- Instinct
- Hybridism
- On the imperfection of the geological record
- On the geological succession of organic beings
- Geographical distribution
- Geographical distribution, continued
- Mutual affinities of organic beings : morphology, embryology, rudimentary organs
- Recapitulation and conclusion.