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The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2
Charles Darwin · Public domain text
199,485 words · about 13 h 58 min to read
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About this book
- Author
- Charles Darwin (1809–1882)
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Variation (Biology), Domestic animals, Plants, Cultivated
- Length
- 199,485 words · about 13 h 58 min
- Sections
- 28 reader sections · Table of contents
- Source
- Project Gutenberg #2872
Contents (28)
- Opening about 1 min
- 2. XV.--ON CROSSING about 1 min
- 2. XVII.--ON THE GOOD EFFECTS OF CROSSING, AND ON THE EVIL EFFECTS OF CLOSE INTERBREEDING about 1 min
- 2. XIX.--SUMMARY OF THE FOUR LAST CHAPTERS, WITH REMARKS ON HYBRIDISM under 1 min
- 2. XX.--SELECTION BY MAN under 1 min
- 2. XXI.--SELECTION, continued about 1 min
- 2. XXII.--CAUSES OF VARIABILITY under 1 min
- 2. XXIII.--DIRECT AND DEFINITE ACTION OF THE EXTERNAL CONDITIONS OF LIFE about 1 min
- 2. XXVII.--PROVISIONAL HYPOTHESIS OF PANGENESIS under 1 min
- 2. XXVIII.--CONCLUDING REMARKS under 1 min
- 2. XIII about 1 h 1 min
- 2. XIV about 43 min
- 2. XV about 25 min
- 2. XVI about 26 min
- 2. XVII about 1 h 7 min
- 2. XVIII about 1 h
- 2. XIX about 28 min
- 2. XX about 53 min
- 2. XXI about 43 min
- 2. XXII about 38 min
- 2. XXIII about 42 min
- 2. XXIV about 50 min
- 2. XXV about 34 min
- 2. XXVI about 28 min
- 2. XXVII about 4 min
- Part I about 30 min
- Part II about 47 min
- 2. XXVIII about 2 h 34 min
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