The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication
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1. Front matter2. FOREWORD3. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION4. INTRODUCTION5. CHAPTER I. DOMESTIC DOGS AND CATS.6. CHAPTER II. HORSES AND ASSES.7. CHAPTER III. PIGS—CATTLE—SHEEP—GOATS8. CATTLE.9. SHEEP.10. GOATS.11. CHAPTER IV. DOMESTIC RABBITS.12. CHAPTER V. DOMESTIC PIGEONS.13. CHAPTER V. DOMESTIC PIGEONS. (continued 2)14. CHAPTER VI. PIGEONS—continued.15. CHAPTER VI. PIGEONS—continued. (continued 2)16. CHAPTER VII. FOWLS.17. CHAPTER VII. FOWLS. (continued 2)18. CHAPTER VIII. DUCK—GOOSE—PEACOCK—TURKEY—GUINEA-FOWL—CANARY-BIRD—GOLD-FISH—RIVER-BEES—SILK-MOTHS.19. CHAPTER IX. CULTIVATED PLANTS: CEREAL AND CULINARY PLANTS.20. CHAPTER X. PLANTS continued—FRUITS—ORNAMENTAL TREES—FLOWERS.21. CHAPTER X. PLANTS continued—FRUITS—ORNAMENTAL TREES—FLOWERS. (continued 2)22. CHAPTER XI. ON BUD-VARIATION, AND ON CERTAIN ANOMALOUS MODES OF REPRODUCTION AND VARIATION.23. CHAPTER XI. ON BUD-VARIATION, AND ON CERTAIN ANOMALOUS MODES OF REPRODUCTION AND VARIATION. (continued 2)24. CHAPTER XII. INHERITANCE.25. CHAPTER XIII. INHERITANCE continued—REVERSION OF ATAVISM.26. CHAPTER XIV. INHERITANCE continued—FIXEDNESS OF CHARACTER—PREPOTENCY—SEXUAL LIMITATION—CORRESPONDENCE OF AGE.27. CHAPTER XV. ON CROSSING.28. CHAPTER XVI. CAUSES WHICH INTERFERE WITH THE FREE CROSSING OF VARIETIES—INFLUENCE OF DOMESTICATION ON FERTILITY.29. CHAPTER XVII. ON THE GOOD EFFECTS OF CROSSING, AND ON THE EVIL EFFECTS OF CLOSE INTERBREEDING.30. CHAPTER XVIII. ON THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF CHANGED CONDITIONS OF LIFE: STERILITY FROM VARIOUS CAUSES.31. CHAPTER XIX. SUMMARY OF THE FOUR LAST CHAPTERS, WITH REMARKS ON HYBRIDISM.32. CHAPTER XX. SELECTION BY MAN.33. CHAPTER XXI. SELECTION, continued.34. CHAPTER XXII. CAUSES OF VARIABILITY.35. CHAPTER XXIII. DIRECT AND DEFINITE ACTION OF THE EXTERNAL CONDITIONS OF LIFE.36. CHAPTER XXIV. LAWS OF VARIATION—USE AND DISUSE, ETC.37. CHAPTER XXV. LAWS OF VARIATION, continued.—CORRELATED VARIABILITY.38. CHAPTER XXVI. LAWS OF VARIATION, continued.—SUMMARY.39. CHAPTER XXVII. PROVISIONAL HYPOTHESIS OF PANGENESIS.40. PART I.41. PART II.42. CHAPTER XXVIII. CONCLUDING REMARKS.43. INDEX44. INDEX (continued 2)45. INDEX (continued 3)