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The Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection of the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

Authors:: Charles Darwin (author) and Julian Huxley (introduction)
Language:: English
Original language:: English
Publisher:: Penguin Books
Categories:: Biology, classic and science
Publisher series:: Signet Classics
Publication year:: 2003
Original publication year:: 1859
ISBN:: 978-0-451-52906-0
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Introduction

An Historical Sketch

The Origin of Species

Introduction

Chapter I: Variation Under Domestication

Chapter II: Variation Under Nature

Chapter III: Struggle for Existence

Chapter IV: Natural Selection; or The Survival of the Fittest

Chapter V: Laws of Variation

Chapter VI: Difficulties of the Theory

Chapter VII: Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection

Chapter VIII: Instinct

Chapter IX: Hybridism

Chapter X: On the Imperfection of the Geological Record

Chapter XI: On the Geological Succession of Organic Beings

Chapter XII: Geographical Distribution

Chapter XIII: Geographical Distribution -- continued

Chapter XIV: Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphologies: Embryology: Rudimentary Organs

Chapter XV: Recapitulation and Conclusion

Glossary of Scientific Terms

Index