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The Origin of Species (Barnes & Noble Classics) - Charles Darwin [261]

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with a final essay that marks Wallace’s view that natural selection does not account for the development of the human mind and spirit.

Young, Robert. Darwin’s Metaphor: Nature’s Place in Victorian Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. A collection of scholarly and contentious essays setting Darwin’s thought in context.

Subject Index by Charles Darwin

Aberrant groups

Abyssinia, plants of

Acclimatisation

Affinities of extinct species; of organic beings

Agassiz on Amblyopsis; on groups of species suddenly appearing ; on embryological succession ; on the glacial period; on embryological characters; on the embryos of vertebrata; on parallelism of embryological development and geological succession

Algae of New Zealand

Alligators, males, fighting

Amblyopsis, blind fish

America, North, productions allied to those of Europe; boulders and glaciers of; South, no modern formations on west coast

Ammonites, sudden extinction of

Anagallis, sterility of

Analog of variations

Ancylus

Animals, not domesticated from being variable; descended from several stocks; acclimatisation of ; of Australia; with thicker fur in cold climates; blind, in caves; extinct, of Australia

Anomma

Antarctic islands, ancient flora of

Antirrhinum

Ants attending aphides; slave-making instinct

Ants, neuter, structure of

Aphides attended by ants

Aphis, development of

Apteryx

Arab horses

Aralo-Caspian Sea

Archiac, M. de, on the succession of species

Artichoke, Jerusalem

Ascension, plants of

Asclepias, pollen of

Asparagus

Aspicarpa

Asses, striped

Ateuchus

Audubon, on habits of frigate-bird; on variation in birds‘-nests; on heron eating seeds

Australia, animals of; dogs of ; extinct animals of 271; European plants in

Azara on flies destroying cattle

Azores, flora of

Babington, Mr., on British plants

Balancement of growth

Bamboo with hooks

Barberry, flowers of

Barrande, M., on Silurian colonies; on the succession of species; on parallelism of palaeozoic formations ; on affinities of ancient species

Barriers, importance of

Batrachians on islands

Bats, how structure acquired; distribution of

Bear, catching water-insects

Bee, sting of; queen, killing rivals

Bees fertilizing flowers; hive ; not sucking the red clover ; cell-making instinct; humble, cells of; parasitic

Beetles, wingless, in Madeira; with deficient tarsi

Bentham, Mr., on British plants; on classification

Berkeley, Mr., on seeds in saltwater

Bermuda, birds of

Birds acquiring fear; annually cross the Atlantic; colour of, on continents; fossil, in caves of Brazil; of Madeira, Bermuda, and Galapagos; song of males; transporting seeds ; waders; wingless ; with traces of embryonic teeth

Bizcacha; affinities of

Bladder for swimming in fish

Blindness of cave animals

Blyth, Mr., on distinctness of Indian cattle; on striped Hemionus; on crossed geese

Boar, shoulder-pad of

Borrow, Mr., on the Spanish pointer

Bory St. Vincent, on Batrachians

Bosquet, M., on fossil Chthamalus

Boulders, erratic, on the Azores

Branchiae

Brent, Mr., on house-tumblers; on hawks killing pigeons

Brewer, Dr., on American cuckoo

Britain, mammals of

Bronn, on duration of specific forms

Brown, Robert, on classification

Buckman, on variation in plants

Buzareingues on sterility of varieties

Cabbage, varieties of, crossed

Calceolaria

Cape de Verde islands

Cape of Good hope, plants of

Cassini on flowers of composita

Catasetum

Cats, with blue eyes, deaf; variation in habits of; curling tail when going to spring

Cattle destroying fir-trees; destroyed by flies in La Plata; breeds of, locally extinct; fertility of Indian and European breeds

Cave, inhabitants of, blind

Centres of creation

Cephalopodae, development of

Cervulus

Cetacea, teeth and hair

Ceylon, plants of

Chalk formation

Charlock

Checks to increase; mutual

Chickens, instinctive tameness of

Chthamalinae

Chthamalus, cretacean species of

Circumstances favourable to selection of domestic products; to natural selection

Cirripedes capable of crossing; carapace aborted; their ovigerous frena;

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