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The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2

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Nature, Gardens & Animals

The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2

Charles Darwin

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In this second volume Darwin tackles the laws behind the forms: inheritance, reversion, prepotency, and the effects of crossing varieties. He gathers a lifetime of evidence on how traits pass, blend, or vanish across generations. Dense, thorough, and foundational to genetics before genetics had a name. Follow the threads of heredity through Darwin's careful hands.

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37 chapters

  1. 1THE VARIATION OF
  2. 2CONTENTS.
  3. 3CHAPTER 2.XIII.—INHERITANCE continued—REVERSION OR ATAVISM.
  4. 4CHAPTER 2.XIV.—INHERITANCE continued.—FIXEDNESS OF CHARACTER—PREPOTENCY— SEXUAL LIMITATION—CORRESPONDENCE OF AGE.
  5. 5CHAPTER 2.XV.—ON CROSSING.
  6. 6CHAPTER 2.XVI.—CAUSES WHICH INTERFERE WITH THE FREE CROSSING OF VARIETIES— INFLUENCE OF DOMESTICATION ON FERTILITY.
  7. 7CHAPTER 2.XVII.—ON THE GOOD EFFECTS OF CROSSING, AND ON THE EVIL EFFECTS OF CLOSE INTERBREEDING.
  8. 8CHAPTER 2.XVIII.—ON THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF CHANGED CONDITIONS OF LIFE: STERILITY FROM VARIOUS CAUSES.
  9. 9CHAPTER 2.XIX.—SUMMARY OF THE FOUR LAST CHAPTERS, WITH REMARKS ON HYBRIDISM.
  10. 10CHAPTER 2.XX.—SELECTION BY MAN.
  11. 11CHAPTER 2.XXI.—SELECTION, continued.
  12. 12CHAPTER 2.XXII.—CAUSES OF VARIABILITY.
  13. 13CHAPTER 2.XXIII.—DIRECT AND DEFINITE ACTION OF THE EXTERNAL CONDITIONS OF LIFE.
  14. 14CHAPTER 2.XXIV.—LAWS OF VARIATION—USE AND DISUSE, ETC.
  15. 15CHAPTER 2.XXV.—LAWS OF VARIATION, continued.—CORRELATED VARIABILITY.
  16. 16CHAPTER 2.XXVI.—LAWS OF VARIATION, continued.—SUMMARY.
  17. 17CHAPTER 2.XXVII.—PROVISIONAL HYPOTHESIS OF PANGENESIS.
  18. 18CHAPTER 2.XXVIII.—CONCLUDING REMARKS.

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