Charles Darwin's Natural Selection: Being the Second Part of His Big Species Book Written from 1856 to 1858Cambridge University Press, 1987 M11 26 - 692 pages Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species is unquestionably one of the chief landmarks in biology. The Origin (as it is widely known) was literally only an abstract of the manuscript Darwin had originally intended to complete and publish as the formal presentation of his views on evolution. Compared with the Origin, his original long manuscript work on Natural Selection, which is presented here and made available for the first time in printed form, has more abundant examples and illustrations of Darwin's argument, plus an extensive citation of sources. |
Contents
General Introduction | 9 |
Editorial considerations | 15 |
Darwins table of contents | 25 |
Possibility of all organic beings crossing | 33 |
Variation under nature | 92 |
The struggle for existence | 172 |
On natural selection | 213 |
Laws of variation | 275 |
Hybridism | 387 |
Mental powers and instincts of animals | 463 |
Geographical Distribution | 528 |
Appendices | 567 |
Bibliography | 587 |
Guides to the texts of the long and the short versions | 630 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Charles Darwin's Natural Selection: Being the Second Part of His Big Species Book Written from 1856 to 1858 |
| Author | Charles Darwin |
| Editor | R. C. Stauffer |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1987 |
| ISBN | 0521348072, 9780521348072 |
| Length | 692 pages |
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