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... by Charles Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ... Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...tinguishing between Varieties and Species — Origin of Domestic Variet- ies from one or more Species — Domestic Pigeons, their Differences and Origin —... ...ical Succession of Organic Beings On the slow and successive appearance of new spe- cies — On their different rates of change — Species once lost do n... ...d radiating — Extinction separates and defines groups —Morphology, between members of the same class, between parts of the same individual — Embryol- ... ...sputed. Compare the sev- eral floras of Great Britain, of France or of the United States, drawn up by different botanists, and see what a surprising n... ... Compare the sev- eral floras of Great Britain, of France or of the United States, drawn up by different botanists, and see what a surprising number o... ...ve generations made tumblers what they now are; and near Glasgow there are house-tumblers, as I hear from Mr. Brent, which cannot fly eighteen inches ... ...illera. On the mountains of Abyssinia, several European forms and some few representatives of the peculiar flora of the Cape of Good Hope occur. At th...