Darwin on Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection

by Darwin, Charles; Glick, Thomas F.; Kohn, David

• ISBN13: 9780872202856
• ISBN10: 0872202852
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-10-01
• Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	xi
Journal of Researches	1	(45)
Introduction: First Edition (1839)	1	(1)
Patagonia	2	(18)
Introduction: Second Edition (1845)	20	(2)
Galapagos Archipelago	22	(24)
Darwin's Notebooks	46	(36)
Introduction	46	(2)
Editorial Note	48	(1)
The Notebooks	49	(33)
Darwin and Lamarck: Marginalia	82	(5)
1842 Sketch and 1844 Essay	87	(31)
Introduction	87	(2)
1842 Sketch: On Selection Under Domestication, Natural Selection, and Organic Beings in the Wild State	89	(10)
1844 Essay: Variation of Organic Beings in the Wild State	99	(17)
Darwin's View of the Importance of the 1844 Essay	116	(2)
A Monograph of the Sub-Class Cirripedia (1851)	118	(9)
Introduction	118	(1)
Complemental Males	119	(7)
Darwin Reflects on His Cirripede Research	126	(1)
Natural Selection: The Big Species Book (1856--1858)	127	(25)
Introduction	127	(3)
On the Principle of Divergence	130	(20)
Darwin's Plans for the ``Big Species Book''	150	(2)
Abstract of Darwin's Theory Sent to Asa Gray (1857)	152	(4)
Introduction	152	(1)
Abstract	153	(3)
On the Origin of Species (1859)	156	(60)
Introduction	156	(4)
Darwin's Introduction	160	(4)
The Struggle for Existence	164	(11)
Natural Selection	175	(32)
Difficulties on Theory	207	(3)
Instinct	210	(1)
Conclusion	211	(4)
The Success of On the Origin of Species	215	(1)
Variation of Plants and Animals Under Domestication (1868)	216	(24)
Introduction	216	(2)
Pangenesis	218	(21)
Troubles with Pangenesis	239	(1)
The Descent of Man (second edition, 1874)	240	(38)
Introduction: Moral Faculties	240	(2)
On the Development of the Intellectual and Moral Faculties during Primeval and Civilized Times	242	(14)
Introduction: Sexual Selection	256	(4)
Sexual Selection	260	(16)
Wallace on The Descent of Man	276	(2)
Flowers and Adaptation	278	(29)
Introduction	278	(5)
The Various Contrivances by Which Orchids Are Fertilised by Insects (second edition, 1877)	283	(1)
Concluding Remarks on the Cause of Diversity and of the Perfection of Contrivances	283	(7)
The Effects of Cross and Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom (second edition, 1878) General Remarks	290	(5)
The Different Forms of Flowers in Plants of the Same Species (second edition, 1878)	295	(12)
Lythrum salicaria	295	(4)
The Means by Which Plants May Have Been Rendered Heterostyled	299	(5)
Final Remarks	304	(1)
Conclusions	305	(2)
Autobiography	307	(16)
Introduction	307	(1)
My Several Publications	308	(15)
Appendix 1 Selections from Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population	323	(12)
Introduction	323	(1)
Selections	324	(11)
Appendix 2 Alfred Russel Wallace: ``On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type'' (1858)	335	(11)
Introduction	335	(2)
Essay	337	(9)
Darwin's Writings and General Bibliography	346	(4)
Indexes	350