The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication Vol 2

Darwin's central work, where he sets out evolution by natural selection and the evidence behind it. This edition opens with his historical sketch of earlier thinking on the question.

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Darwin applies evolution to our own species and develops his theory of sexual selection. A long, closely argued book that traces human origins through comparative anatomy and animal behavior.

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A study of how emotions show in the face and body, and why the same expressions turn up across species. Darwin treats blushing, weeping and fear as biological questions.

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Darwin gathers the evidence for variation and heredity from domesticated animals and cultivated plants. Volume one covers dogs, horses, pigeons and the crops he studied most closely.

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The two early essays, written in 1842 and 1844, in which Darwin first set out natural selection in full. Useful for seeing how the argument of the Origin took shape years before publication.

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