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On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection

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On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection

Charles Darwin

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One long argument changed how the world understood life. In these opening chapters Darwin builds his case from the ground up: variation under domestication and in nature, the struggle for existence, and the natural selection that follows. The book that reordered biology, in the author's own patient voice. Begin the argument that remade our view of the living world.

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17 chapters

  1. 1ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES.
  2. 2INTRODUCTION.
  3. 3CHAPTER I. VARIATION UNDER DOMESTICATION.
  4. 4CHAPTER II. VARIATION UNDER NATURE.
  5. 5CHAPTER III. STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE.
  6. 6CHAPTER IV. NATURAL SELECTION.
  7. 7CHAPTER V. LAWS OF VARIATION.
  8. 8CHAPTER VI. DIFFICULTIES ON THEORY.
  9. 9CHAPTER VII. INSTINCT.
  10. 10CHAPTER VIII. HYBRIDISM.
  11. 11CHAPTER IX. ON THE IMPERFECTION OF THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD.
  12. 12CHAPTER X. ON THE GEOLOGICAL SUCCESSION OF ORGANIC BEINGS.
  13. 13CHAPTER XI. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION.
  14. 14CHAPTER XII. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION—continued.
  15. 15CHAPTER XIII. MUTUAL AFFINITIES OF ORGANIC BEINGS: MORPHOLOGY: EMBRYOLOGY: RUDIMENTARY ORGANS.
  16. 16CHAPTER XIV. RECAPITULATION AND CONCLUSION.
  17. 17INDEX.
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