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The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication
1868 book by Charles Darwin / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication is a book by Charles Darwin that was first published in January 1868.
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![]() Title page of the first edition of The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication | |
Author | Charles Darwin |
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Language | English |
Subject | Artificial selection |
Publisher | John Murray |
Publication date | 30 January 1868 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | Print (hardback) |
Pages | Vol 1: viii,411 +43 figs Vol 2: viii,486. |
OCLC | 960106244 |
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A large proportion of the book contains detailed information on the domestication of animals and plants but it also contains in Chapter XXVII a description of Darwin's theory of heredity which he called pangenesis.