The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication

by Charles Darwin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801858674
• ISBN13: 9780801858673
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 518 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"