The Origin of Species (Barnes & Noble Classics) - Charles Darwin [0]
From the Pages of The Origin of Species
Title Page
Copyright Page
Charles Darwin
The World of Charles Darwin and
Introduction
Praise
CHAPTER I. - VARIATION UNDER DOMESTICATION.
CHAPTER II. - VARIATION UNDER NATURE.
CHAPTER III. - STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE.
CHAPTER IV. - NATURAL SELECTION.
CHAPTER V. - LAWSOFVARIATION.
CHAPTER VI. - DIFFICULTIES ON THEORY.
CHAPTER VII. - INSTINCT.
CHAPTER VIII. - HYBRIDISM.
CHAPTER IX. - ON THE IMPERFECTION OF THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD.
CHAPTER X. - ON THE GEOLOGICAL SUCCESSION OF ORGANIC BEINGS.
CHAPTER XI. - GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION.
CHAPTER XII. - GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION—CONTINUED.
CHAPTER XIII. - MUTUAL AFFINITIES OF ORGANIC BEINGS: MORPHOLOGY: EMBRYOLOGY: ...
CHAPTER XIV. - RECAPITULATION AND CONCLUSION.
APPENDIX: AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE PROGRESS OF OPINION ON THE ORIGIN OF ...
GLOSSARY OF THE PRINCIPAL SCIENTIFIC TERMS USED IN THE PRESENT VOLUME
Endnotes
Comments & Questions
For Further Reading
Subject Index by Charles Darwin
From the Pages of The Origin of Species
No case is on record of a variable being ceasing to be variable under cultivation. (page 18)
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. (page 60)
Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life. (page 60)
The vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply. (page 73)
As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever branching and beautiful ramifications. (page 114)
Our ignorance of the laws of variation is profound. (page 142)
Natural selection will never produce in a being anything injurious to itself, for natural selection acts solely by and for the good of each. (page 168)
There is no fundamental distinction between species and varieties. (page 225)
The extinction of old forms is the almost inevitable consequence of the production of new forms. (page 274)
This power in fresh-water productions of ranging widely, though so unexpected, can, I think, in most cases be explained by their having become fitted, in a manner highly useful to them, for short and frequent migrations from pond to pond, or from stream to stream. (page 305)
The inumerable [sic] species, genera, and families of organic beings, with which this world is peopled, have all descended, each within its own class or group, from common parents, and have all been modified in the course of descent. (page 361 )
I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed. (page 380)
When the views entertained in this volume on the origin of species, or when analogous views are generally admitted, we can dimly foresee that there will be a considerable revolution in natural history. (page 380)
It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. (page 384)
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. (page 384)
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