The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication is a book by Charles Darwin that was first published in January 1868.
Title page of the first edition of The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication | |
| Author | Charles Darwin |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Artificial selection |
| Publisher | John Murray |
Publication date | 30 January 1868 |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | Vol 1: viii,411 +43 figs Vol 2: viii,486. |
| OCLC | 960106244 |
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.
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