Darwinism stated by Darwin himself : Characteristic passages from the writings of Charles Darwin
"Darwinism Stated by Darwin Himself" by Charles Darwin is a scientific publication compiled in the late 19th century. The book offers a curated selection of key passages from Darwin's extensive writings, aiming to present his theories on evolution and natural selection through his own...
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Salt Lake City, UT :
Project Gutenberg,
2022
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| Online Access: | https://archive.org/details/darwinismstatedb00darwuoft/page/n5/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69147 |
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Table of 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.