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Volume 1 deals with the variations introduced into species as a result of domestication, through changes in climate, diet, breeding and an absence of predators. He began with an examination of dogs and cats, comparing them with their wild counterparts, and moved on to investigate horses and asses; pigs, cattle, sheep, and goats; domestic ...
- Charles Darwin
- 1868
960106244. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication is a book by Charles Darwin that was first published in January 1868. A large proportion of the book contains detailed information on the domestication of animals and plants but it also contains in Chapter XXVII a description of Darwin's theory of heredity which he called ...
- Charles Darwin
- Vol 1: viii,411 +43 figs, Vol 2: viii,486.
- 1868
- 30 January 1868
Sep 20, 2009 · The variation of animals and plants under domestication ... The variation of animals and plants under domestication by Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882; Gray, Asa, 1810-1888.
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The variation of animals and plants under domestication. London: John Murray. 1st edition, second issue. Volume 1. REVISION HISTORY: Scanned for Darwin Online 2006; transcribed (double key) by AEL Data 8.2006. Additions by John van Wyhe 10.2022. RN3. NOTE: See record in the Freeman Bibliographical Database, enter its Identifier here.
Oct 5, 2010 · It is my intention to give under the head of each species only such facts as I have been able to collect or observe, showing the amount and nature of the changes which animals and plants have undergone whilst under man's dominion, or which bear on the general principles of variation. In one case alone, namely in that of the domestic pigeon, I ...
Oct 1, 2001 · The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Darwin | Project Gutenberg. Project Gutenberg. 73,385 free eBooks. 53 by Charles Darwin.
In Luther Burbank …books of Charles Darwin, especially The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication (1868). At the age of 21 he purchased a 7-hectare (17-acre) tract near Lunenberg, Massachusetts, and began a 55-year plant-breeding career that almost immediately saw the development of the Burbank, or Idaho, potato.
