The Origin of Species
Darwin spends the first chapter on pigeon breeders, which is exactly how he wins the argument.
- Listening time
- about 21 h 30 min
- Length
- 199,595 words
- First published
- 1859
- Public domain
- the author died in 1882
- Edition
- Edition and cover by Standard Ebooks, released CC0
- Download in the app
- 1.2 MB stored on your device
- Language
- English
- Shelf
- The Natural World
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How it begins.
When we compare the individuals of the same variety or sub-variety of our older cultivated plants and animals, one of the first points which strikes us is, that they generally differ more from each other than do the individuals of any one species or variety in a state of nature.
The Origin of Species · Charles Darwin · 1859
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