The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication

by Charles Darwin

THE VARIATION

OF

ANIMALS AND PLANTS

UNDER DOMESTICATION.

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

IN TWO VOLUMES.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.

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