The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication

by Charles Darwin

Harriet Ritvo (Introduction) and Harriet Ritvo (Arthur J. Conner Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) (Introduction)

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The publication of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" in 1859 ignited a public storm he neither wanted nor enjoyed. Having offered his book as a contribution to science, Darwin discovered to his dismay that it was received as an affront by many scientists and as a sacrilege by clergy and Christian citizens. To answer the criticism that his theory was a theory only, and a wild one at that, he published two volumes in 1868 to demonstrate that evolution was obvious to anyone who cared to look at a bull in a pasture or a dog on a...Read more
  • ISBN10 0801858666
  • ISBN13 9780801858666
  • Publish Date 24 March 1998
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Out of Print 18 January 2011
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 504
  • Language English