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The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication

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The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication

Charles Darwin

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Charles Darwin turns from wild nature to the farmyard and kennel, asking how breeders reshaped dogs, cats, horses, cattle, and pigeons into countless forms. Packed with evidence, it is his great study of variation under human hands, the practical companion to natural selection. Darwin at his most patient and encyclopedic. See evolution at work in barn and garden.

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57 chapters

  1. 1The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication
  2. 2VOLUMES ONE AND TWO
  3. 3CONTENTS.
  4. 4LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  5. 5FOREWORD
  6. 6PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
  7. 7INTRODUCTION
  8. 8CHAPTER I. DOMESTIC DOGS AND CATS.
  9. 9DOMESTIC CATS.
  10. 10CHAPTER II. HORSES AND ASSES.
  11. 11THE ASS.
  12. 12CHAPTER III. PIGS—CATTLE—SHEEP—GOATS
  13. 13CATTLE.
  14. 14SHEEP.
  15. 15GOATS.
  16. 16CHAPTER IV. DOMESTIC RABBITS.
  17. 17CHAPTER V. DOMESTIC PIGEONS.
  18. 18GROUP I.

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