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On the Origin of Species (or, more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life) is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin that is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology.
- Charles Darwin
- 1859
May 29, 2024 · Darwin hastily began an “abstract” of Natural Selection, which grew into a more-accessible book, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
- Adrian J. Desmond
- VARIATION UNDER DOMESTICATION. Causes of Variability. Effects of Habit. Correlation of Growth. Inheritance. Character of Domestic Varieties. Difficulty of distinguishing between Varieties and Species.
- VARIATION UNDER NATURE. Variability. Individual differences. Doubtful species. Wide ranging, much diffused, and common species vary most. Species of the larger genera in any country vary more than the species of the smaller genera.
- STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE. Bears on natural selection. The term used in a wide sense. Geometrical powers of increase. Rapid increase of naturalised animals and plants.
- NATURAL SELECTION. Natural Selection: its power compared with man’s selection, its power on characters of trifling importance, its power at all ages and on both sexes.
The origin of species : a digital edition of the 1859 London Origin of Species / by Charles Darwin ; Adam M. Goldstein, editor. New York : American Museum of Natural History, 2011. 1 fig., xxxii + 298 pp. Computer data (1 file: 6,400,000 bytes). Represents a printed book; suitable for download, printing. Includes editor’s introduction, index.
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Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species led Jeffrey to interpret the form and structure of plants historically and to use comparative morphology and anatomy to provide evidence of specific evolutions. In 1899 Jeffrey reclassified all vascular plants into Lycopsida and Pteropsida; while later classifications have refined plant groupings,…
Nov 9, 2022 · In considering the origin of species, it is quite conceivable that a naturalist, reflecting on the mutual affinities of organic beings, on their embryological relations, their geographical distribution, geological succession, and other such facts, might come to the conclusion that species had not been independently created, but had descended ...
A new scholarly edition of Darwin's classic work, with an introduction by Jim Endersby that examines the contexts, controversies and legacy of the Origin. Includes illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography and index.
