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The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
Charles Darwin
One book split the history of biology in two. Charles Darwin lays out variation, the struggle for existence, and natural selection, building the case that species change and branch over time. Patient, cautious, and world-changing. The founding work of modern evolutionary science, argued fact by fact. Read the argument that transformed how we understand every living thing. Follow the reasoning that changed the world.
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22 chapters
- 1AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE PROGRESS OF OPINION ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES, PREVIOUSLY TO THE PUBLICATION OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THIS WORK.
- 2Contents
- 3DETAILED CONTENTS.
- 4ORIGIN OF SPECIES.
- 5INTRODUCTION.
- 6CHAPTER I. VARIATION UNDER DOMESTICATION.
- 7CHAPTER II. VARIATION UNDER NATURE.
- 8CHAPTER III. STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE.
- 9CHAPTER IV. NATURAL SELECTION; OR THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST.
- 10CHAPTER V. LAWS OF VARIATION.
- 11CHAPTER VI. DIFFICULTIES OF THE THEORY.
- 12CHAPTER VII. MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTIONS TO THE THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION.
- 13CHAPTER VIII. INSTINCT.
- 14CHAPTER IX. HYBRIDISM.
- 15CHAPTER X. ON THE IMPERFECTION OF THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD.
- 16CHAPTER XI. ON THE GEOLOGICAL SUCCESSION OF ORGANIC BEINGS.
- 17CHAPTER XII. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION.
- 18CHAPTER XIII. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION—continued.
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