The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication

THE VARIATION

ANIMALS AND PLANTS

UNDER DOMESTICATION.

CHARLES DARWIN, M.A., F.R.S., &c.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1868.

VOLUME I.
 * INTRODUCTION
 * Chapter I. DOMESTIC DOGS AND CATS.
 * Chapter II. HORSES AND ASSES.
 * Chapter III. PIGS—CATTLE—SHEEP—GOATS.
 * Chapter IV. DOMESTIC RABBITS.
 * Chapter V. DOMESTIC PIGEONS.
 * Chapter VI. PIGEONS—continued.
 * Chapter VII. FOWLS.
 * Chapter VIII. DUCKS—GOOSE—PEACOCK—TURKEY—GUINEA-FOWL—CANARY-BIRD—GOLD-FISH—HIVE-BEES—SILK-MOTHS.
 * Chapter IX. CULTIVATED PLANTS: CEREAL AND CULINARY PLANTS.
 * Chapter X. PLANTS continued—FRUITS—ORNAMENTAL TREES—FLOWERS.
 * Chapter XI. ON BUD-VARIATION, AND ON CERTAIN ANOMALOUS MODES OF REPRODUCTION AND VARIATION.

VOLUME II.
 * Chapter XII. INHERITANCE.
 * Chapter XIII. INHERITANCE continued—REVERSION OR ATAVISM.
 * Chapter XIV. INHERITANCE continued—FIXEDNESS OF CHARACTER—PREPOTENCY—SEXUAL LIMITATION—CORRESPONDENCE OF AGE.
 * Chapter XV. ON CROSSING.
 * Chapter XVI. CAUSES WHICH INTERFERE WITH THE FREE CROSSING OF VARIETIES—INFLUENCE OF DOMESTICATION ON FERTILITY.
 * Chapter XVII. ON THE GOOD EFFECTS OF CROSSING, AND ON THE EVIL EFFECTS OF CLOSE INTERBREEDING.
 * Chapter XVIII. ON THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF CHANGED CONDITIONS OF LIFE: STERILITY FROM VARIOUS CAUSES.
 * Chapter XIX. SUMMARY OF THE FOUR LAST CHAPTERS, WITH REMARKS ON HYBRIDISM.
 * Chapter XX. SELECTION BY MAN.
 * Chapter XXI. SELECTION—continued.
 * Chapter XXII. CAUSES OF VARIABILITY.
 * Chapter XXIII. DIRECT AND DEFINITE ACTION OF THE EXTERNAL CONDITIONS OF LIFE.
 * Chapter XXIV. LAWS OF VARIATION—USE AND DISUSE, ETC.
 * Chapter XXV. LAWS OF VARIATION, continued—CORRELATED VARIABILITY.
 * Chapter XXVI. LAWS OF VARIATION, continued—SUMMARY.
 * Chapter XXVII. PROVISIONAL HYPOTHESIS OF PANGENESIS.
 * Chapter XXVIII. CONCLUDING REMARKS.

INDEX