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