The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication

Charles Darwin's vast survey of how humans have reshaped living things through breeding — the evidence, gathered animal by animal and plant by plant, behind his theory of selection.

At a glance Pigeons, dogs, cattle, gooseberries and garden flowers become, under Darwin's patient… What it's about Published in 1868, The Variation of Animals and Plants under… Across two volumes he catalogues the breeds of the domestic pigeon, the varieties of… He even advances his provisional theory of "pangenesis" as an attempt to explain how…

Published in 1868, The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication is Darwin's most exhaustive treatment of a single line of argument: that the diversity humans have coaxed from domesticated species…