Darwin on Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection

, by Darwin, Charles; Glick, Thomas F.; Kohn, David

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ISBN: 9780872202856 | 0872202852
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Copyright: 10/1/1996

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Journal of Researches

(45)

Introduction: First Edition (1839)

(1)

Patagonia

(18)

Introduction: Second Edition (1845)

(2)

Galapagos Archipelago

(24)

Darwin's Notebooks

(36)

Introduction

(2)

Editorial Note

(1)

The Notebooks

(33)

Darwin and Lamarck: Marginalia

(5)

1842 Sketch and 1844 Essay

(31)

Introduction

(2)

1842 Sketch: On Selection Under Domestication, Natural Selection, and Organic Beings in the Wild State

(10)

1844 Essay: Variation of Organic Beings in the Wild State

(17)

Darwin's View of the Importance of the 1844 Essay

116

(2)

A Monograph of the Sub-Class Cirripedia (1851)

118

(9)

Introduction

118

(1)

Complemental Males

119

(7)

Darwin Reflects on His Cirripede Research

126

(1)

Natural Selection: The Big Species Book (1856--1858)

127

(25)

Introduction

127

(3)

On the Principle of Divergence

130

(20)

Darwin's Plans for the ``Big Species Book''

150

(2)

Abstract of Darwin's Theory Sent to Asa Gray (1857)

152

(4)

Introduction

152

(1)

Abstract

153

(3)

On the Origin of Species (1859)

156

(60)

Introduction

156

(4)

Darwin's Introduction

160

(4)

The Struggle for Existence

164

(11)

Natural Selection

175

(32)

Difficulties on Theory

207

(3)

Instinct

210

(1)

Conclusion

211

(4)

The Success of On the Origin of Species

215

(1)

Variation of Plants and Animals Under Domestication (1868)

216

(24)

Introduction

216

(2)

Pangenesis

218

(21)

Troubles with Pangenesis

239

(1)

The Descent of Man (second edition, 1874)

240

(38)

Introduction: Moral Faculties

240

(2)

On the Development of the Intellectual and Moral Faculties during Primeval and Civilized Times

242

(14)

Introduction: Sexual Selection

256

(4)

Sexual Selection

260

(16)

Wallace on The Descent of Man

276

(2)

Flowers and Adaptation

278

(29)

Introduction

278

(5)

The Various Contrivances by Which Orchids Are Fertilised by Insects (second edition, 1877)

283

(1)

Concluding Remarks on the Cause of Diversity and of the Perfection of Contrivances

283

(7)

The Effects of Cross and Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom (second edition, 1878) General Remarks

290

(5)

The Different Forms of Flowers in Plants of the Same Species (second edition, 1878)

295

(12)

Lythrum salicaria

295

(4)

The Means by Which Plants May Have Been Rendered Heterostyled

299

(5)

Final Remarks

304

(1)

Conclusions

305

(2)

Autobiography

307

(16)

Introduction

307

(1)

My Several Publications

308

(15)

Appendix 1 Selections from Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population

323

(12)

Introduction

323

(1)

Selections

324

(11)

Appendix 2 Alfred Russel Wallace: ``On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type'' (1858)

335

(11)

Introduction

335

(2)

Essay

337

(9)

Darwin's Writings and General Bibliography

346

(4)

Indexes

350

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