The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection / Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition
by Charles Darwin
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Contents
- On the Origin of Species
- An Historical Sketch of the Progress of Opinion on the Origin of Species, Previously to the Publication of the First Edition of This Work
- Detailed Contents
- 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: Morphology: Embryology: Rudimentary Organs
- Chapter XV. Recapitulation and Conclusion
- Glossary of the Principal Scientific Terms Used in the Present Volume.*