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The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication

by Charles Darwin

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  1. 1Preface to the Second Edition
  2. 2Foreword
  3. 3Preface to the Second Edition
  4. 4Introduction
  5. 5Chapter I — Domestic Dogs and Cats
  6. 6Chapter II — Horses and Asses
  7. 7Chapter III — Pigs — Cattle — Sheep — Goats
  8. 8Cattle
  9. 9Sheep
  10. 10Goats
  11. 11Chapter IV — Domestic Rabbits
  12. 12Chapter V — Domestic Pigeons
  13. 13Chapter VI — Pigeons — Continued
  14. 14Chapter VII — Fowls
  15. 15Chapter VIII — Duck — Goose — Peacock — Turkey — Guinea-Fowl — Cana…
  16. 16Chapter IX — Cultivated Plants: Cereal and Culinary Plants
  17. 17Chapter X — Plants Continued — Fruits — Ornamental Trees — Flowers
  18. 18Chapter XI — On Bud-Variation, and on Certain Anomalous Modes of Re…
  19. 19Chapter XII — Inheritance
  20. 20Chapter XIII — Inheritance Continued — Reversion of Atavism
  21. 21Chapter XIV — Inheritance Continued — Fixedness of Character — Prep…
  22. 22Chapter XV — On Crossing
  23. 23Chapter XVI — Causes Which Interfere With the Free Crossing of Vari…
  24. 24Chapter XVII — On the Good Effects of Crossing, and on the Evil Eff…
  25. 25Chapter XVIII — On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Changed Cond…
  26. 26Chapter XIX — Summary of the Four Last Chapters, With Remarks on Hy…
  27. 27Chapter XX — Selection by Man
  28. 28Chapter XXI — Selection, Continued
  29. 29Chapter XXII — Causes of Variability
  30. 30Chapter XXIII — Direct and Definite Action of the External Conditio…
  31. 31Chapter XXIV — Laws of Variation — Use and Disuse, etc.
  32. 32Chapter XXV — Laws of Variation, Continued — Correlated Variability
  33. 33Chapter XXVI — Laws of Variation, Continued — Summary
  34. 34Chapter XXVII — Provisional Hypothesis of Pangenesis
  35. 35Chapter XXVIII — Concluding Remarks

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