Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1726

CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN (1809-1882) The variation of animals and plants under domestication. J. Murray 1868 Vol. I: viii, 411 pp., illus.; Vol. II: 486 pp. 22.2 cm.

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This work may be viewed as a detailed account of the material summarized in the first chapter of On the origin of species. It also contains Darwin's erroneous theory of pangenesis, a variation of Lamarckism, which taught the inheritance of acquired characteristics.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 224.1; Waller 10789

Gift of John Martin, M.D.