The Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (Cambridge Library Collection - Darwin, Evolution and Genetics)

This sixth edition of The Origin of Species was published in 1876. It is the last edition on which Darwin himself worked before his death in 1882, and offers a useful complement to the 2009 scholarly edition, edited by Jim Endersby and published by Cambridge University Press in Darwin's bicentennial year. The sixth edition contains a 'historical sketch' in which Darwin reviews the many works by eminent European and American scientists - beginning with Lamarck in 1801 - in which ideas of evolutionary species change and of natural selection were touched on but not developed. This edition, like all from the second onwards, contains the words 'by the Creator', controversially added to the famous last sentence in the book: 'There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one...' Cover......Page 1 Frontmatter......Page 6 Contents......Page 10 INSTRUCTION TO BINDER......Page 15 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS, TO THE SIXTH EDITION......Page 16 HISTORICAL SKETCH......Page 18 INTRODUCTION......Page 28 CHAPTER I - VARIATION UNDER DOMESTICATION......Page 32 CHAPTER II - VARIATION UNDER NATURE......Page 60 CHAPTER III - STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE......Page 75 CHAPTER IV - NATURAL SELECTION; OR THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST......Page 89 CHAPTER V - LAWS OF VARIATION......Page 133 CHAPTER VI - DIFFICULTIES OF THE THEORY......Page 160 CHAPTER VII - MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTIONS TO THE THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION......Page 195 CHAPTER VIII - INSTINCT......Page 232 CHAPTER IX - HYBRIDISM......Page 262 CHAPTER X - ON THE IMPERFECTION OF THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD......Page 291 CHAPTER XI - ON THE GEOLOGICAL SUCCESSION OF ORGANIC BEINGS......Page 317 CHAPTER XII - GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION......Page 343 CHAPTER XIII - GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION---continued......Page 370 CHAPTER XIV - MUTUAL AFFINITIES OF ORGANIC BEINGS: MORPHOLOGY: EMBRYOLOGY: RUDIMENTARY ORGANS......Page 390 CHAPTER XV - RECAPITULATION AND CONCLUSION......Page 431 GLOSSARY OF SCIENTIFIC TERMS......Page 457 INDEX......Page 470 This sixth edition of The Origin of Species was published in 1876. It is the last edition on which Darwin himself worked before his death in 1882, and complements the 2009 scholarly edition, edited by Jim Endersby and published by Cambridge University Press in Darwin's bicentennial year.