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The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication: Volume 1 (Cambridge Library Collection - Darwin, Evolution and Genetics) by Darwin, Charles (author) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Charles Darwin (1809-1882) first published this work in 1868 in two volumes. The book began as an expansion of the first two chapters of On the Origin of Species: 'Variation under Domestication' and 'Variation under Nature', and it developed into one of his largest works; Darwin referred to it as his 'big book'. Volume 1 deals with the variations introduced into species as a result of domestication, through changes in climate, diet, breeding and an absence of predators. He began with an examination of dogs and cats, comparing them with their wild counterparts, and moved on to investigate horses and asses; pigs, cattle, sheep, and goats; domestic rabbits; domestic pigeons; fowl; and finally cultivated plants. The work is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century scientific investigation; it is a key text in the development of Darwin's own thought and of the wider discipline of evolutionary biology.

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Author

Darwin, Charles (author)

Publisher

publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780511709500

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Biology, Stem