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The object of this work is to describe as many races of animals and plants which have been domesticated by man. The sole aim of the author is to give under the head of each species only such facts as he has been able to collect, showing the amount and nature of the changes which animals and plants have undergone in man’s dominion. The subjects discussed in the work are so connected that it is not a little difficult to decide how they can best be arranged. ...
The subject of the present volume, namely the differently formed flowers normally produced by certain kinds of plants, either on the same stock or on distinct stocks, ought to have been treated by a professed botanist. As far as the sexual relations of flowers are concerned, linnaeus long ago divided them into hermaphrodite, monoecious, dioecious, and polygamous species. This fundamental distinction, with the aid of several subdivisions in each of the four ...
"Even cows, when they frisk about from pleasure, throw up their tails in a ridiculous fashion." So writes Charles Darwin in his magnum opus on how humans and animals display such emotions as fear, anger, disdain, and pleasure. It is work that has in most respects been sustained by later scientific research. First published in 1872, Darwin's shape its author intended: bits and pieces were left out of subsequent printings, most of them released after ...
A classic that took the world by storm, raising havoc among scientists and religious people as its exposition apparently contradicted the account of the creation of the world of Genesis in the bible, Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species remains the most readable and accessible of the great revolutionary works of scientific imagination. Sold out on the very first day of its publication in 1859 and often considered a watershed in the history of scientific, ...
This volume contains the life and experiences of the man, not only in his own words, but also in the words of his son, Sir Francis Darwin. It consists, in the form of appendices, the way Charles Darwin was viewed by his family and the influence he had on various other people. The implications of his work continue to influence all fields of human endeavour till date. CHARLES DARWIN (1809) natural historian and evolutionary theorist, was born and brought up ...