Author |
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 |
Compiler |
Sheppard, Nathan, 1834-1888 |
LoC No. |
06022508
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Title |
Darwinism stated by Darwin himself Characteristic passages from the writings of Charles Darwin
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Original Publication |
United States: D. Appleton and Company,1884.
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Contents |
The movements and habits of plants -- The part played by worms in the history of this planet -- The laws of variability with respect to animals and plants -- The struggle for existence -- Natural selection; or, the survival of the fittest -- Geographical distribution of organic beings -- Evidence of the descent of man from some lower form -- Mental powers of man and the lower animals compared -- Development of the moral sense -- The genealogy of man -- Sexual selection as an agency to account for the differences between the races of man -- The expression of the emotions in man and other animals -- Means of the expression of the emotions -- The provisional hypothesis of pangenesis -- Objections to the theory of descent with modification considered.
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Credits |
Tim Lindell, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
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Language |
English |
LoC Class |
QH: Science: Natural history
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Subject |
Evolution (Biology)
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Category |
Text |
EBook-No. |
69147 |
Release Date |
Oct 13, 2022 |
Copyright Status |
Public domain in the USA. |
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