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The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication
Title page of the first edition of
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication
AuthorCharles Darwin
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SubjectArtificial selection
PublisherJohn Murray
Publication date
30 January 1868
Media typePrint (hardback)
PagesVol 1: viii,411 +43 figs
Vol 2: viii,486.
OCLC960106244

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication is a book by Charles Darwin that was first published in January 1868.

A large proportion of the book contains detailed information on the domestication of animals and plants but it also contains in Chapter XXVII a description of Darwin's theory of heredity which he called pangenesis.

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