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100 1 _aDarwin, Charles,
_d1809-1882
245 1 4 _aThe Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2002
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Variation_of_Animals_and_Plants_Under_Domestication
500 _aRelease date is 2002-07-01
508 _aSue Asscher, Derek Thompson and Robert J. Robbins
520 _a"The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication" by Charles Darwin is a two-volume work published in January 1868. Drawing on thirteen years of breeding experiments and extensive correspondence, Darwin presents detailed observations on domesticated species—from pigeons to plants. The book also introduces his controversial theory of heredity called pangenesis, which attempts to explain how traits pass from parents to offspring. Though Darwin himself felt "nauseated" rereading his own pages, this exhaustive study laid groundwork for understanding biological inheritance and represented years of painstaking labor beyond his famous Origin of Species. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aVariation (Biology)
653 _aDomestic animals
653 _aPlants, Cultivated
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3332
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