Edging into the Wild

In The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, which appeared first in 1868 and in a revised edition in 1875, Charles Darwin developed a theme to which he had accorded great rhetorical and evidentiary significance. The first chapter of On the Origin of Species, published in 1859, had in...

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Main Author: Ritvo, Harriet (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Humanities. History Section (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2012-10-12T15:01:42Z.
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