The Foundations of the Origin of Species / Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART I. I. « On Variation under Domestication, and on the Principles of Selection. »

PART II {104} . IV. and V. « On the evidence from Geology. »

PART I CHAPTER I ON THE VARIATION OF ORGANIC BEINGS UNDER

CHAPTER II ON THE VARIATION OF ORGANIC BEINGS IN A WILD STATE;

CHAPTER III ON THE VARIATION OF INSTINCTS AND OTHER MENTAL

PART II {305} ON THE EVIDENCE FAVOURABLE AND OPPOSED TO THE

CHAPTER IV ON THE NUMBER OF INTERMEDIATE FORMS REQUIRED ON THE

CHAPTER V GRADUAL APPEARANCE AND DISAPPEARANCE OF SPECIES {326}

CHAPTER VI ON THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF ORGANIC BEINGS IN PAST AND PRESENT TIMES

CHAPTER VII ON THE NATURE OF THE AFFINITIES AND CLASSIFICATION

CHAPTER VIII UNITY OF TYPE IN THE GREAT CLASSES; AND MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURES Unity of Type {454} .

CHAPTER IX ABORTIVE OR RUDIMENTARY ORGANS The abortive organs of naturalists.

CHAPTER X RECAPITULATION AND CONCLUSION Recapitulation.

INDEX

Footnotes

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From a photograph by Maull & Fox in 1854 From a photograph by Maull & Fox in 1854

THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE
ORIGIN OF SPECIES
TWO ESSAYS
WRITTEN IN 1842 AND 1844

by
CHARLES DARWIN

Edited by his son
FRANCIS DARWIN
Honorary Fellow of Christ's College

Cambridge:
at the University Press
1909


Astronomers might formerly have said that God ordered each planet to move in its particular destiny. In same manner God orders each animal created with certain form in certain country. But how much more simple and sublime power,—let attraction act according to certain law, such are inevitable consequences,—let animal«s» be created, then by the fixed laws of generation, such will be their successors.

From Darwin’s Note Book, 1837, p. 101.


TO THE MASTER AND FELLOWS
OF CHRIST’S COLLEGE, THIS
BOOK IS DEDICATED BY THE
EDITOR IN TOKEN OF RESPECT
AND GRATITUDE


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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