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Causes of Variability.

Author of "The Descent of Man," etc., etc.

CHAPTER I ST. JAGO--CAPE DE VERD ISLANDS Porto Praya--Ribeira Grande--Atmospheric Dust with Infusoria--Habits of a Sea-slug and Cuttle-fish--St. Paul's Rocks, non-volcanic--Singular Incrustations...

_With Photographic And Other Illustrations_ New York D. Appleton And Company 1899 DETAILED CONTENTS.

Uniform with this Volume The Origin of Species, by means of Natural Selection; or, The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.

Edited by his Son Francis Darwin [My father's autobiographical recollections, given in the present chapter, were written for his children,--and written without any thought that they would ever b...

Causes of Variability--Effects of Habit--Correlation of Growth--Inheritance--Character of Domestic Varieties--Difficulty of distinguishing between Varieties and Species--Origin of Domestic Varietie...

TO CHARLES LYELL, ESQ., F.R.S., This second edition is dedicated with grateful pleasure, as an acknowledgment that the chief part of whatever scientific merit this journal and the other works of t...

Including An Autobiographical Chapter Edited By His Son Francis Darwin VOLUME I PREFACE In choosing letters for publication I have been largely guided by the wish to illustrate my father...

Nature of the sites inhabited—Can live long under 7–15 water—Nocturnal—Wander about at night—Often lie close to the mouths of their burrows, and are thus destroyed in large numbers ...

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Variation On the hereditary tendency Causes of Variation On Selection Crossing Breeds Whether our domestic races have descended from one or more wild stocks Limits to Variation in degre...

Page 15 CHAPTER II. HORSES AND ASSES.

Introductory remarks—Description of the twining of the Hop—Torsion of the stems—Nature of the revolving movement, and manner of ascent—Stems not irritable—Rate of revolution in various plants—Thick...

VOLUME II. CHAPTER 2.I.--The Publication of the 'Origin of Species'--October 3, 1859, to December 31, 1859.

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II. With Illustrations.

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My duty, in acknowledging the great obligations under which I lie to many naturalists, affords me most sincere pleasure.

which is also the end of Part I. Footnotes are numbered as they appear in 'The Descent of Man.'] The controversy respecting the nature and the extent of the differences in the structure of the ...