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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 July 2011
      03 June 2010
      ISBN:
      9780511709517
      9781108014236
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511709517
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      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.63kg, 500 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Science, Life Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, General Science
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Darwin, Evolution and Genetics
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    Subjects:
    History of Science, Life Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, General Science
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Darwin, Evolution and Genetics
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    Charles Darwin (1809–1882) first published this work in 1868 in two volumes. The book began as an expansion of the first two chapters of On the Origin of Species: 'Variation under Domestication' and 'Variation under Nature' and it developed into one of his largest works; Darwin referred to it as his 'big book'. In volume 2, concerned with how species inherit particular characteristics, Darwin first published his 'provisional hypothesis' of pangenesis. This theory of 'gemmules' was not met with much acceptance and today is not valuable as scientific explanation, but it was important in laying down the key questions that needed to be answered regarding the processes of genetic inheritance. Darwin also used volume 2 to challenge the theories of evolution by design, expounded by the botanist Asa Gray. Darwin's arguments were some of the very first in a long debate that remains hot today.

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