The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication
by Charles Darwin M.A., F.R.S., ETC.
VOLUMES ONE AND TWO
CONTENTS.
FOREWORD
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I.—DOMESTIC DOGS AND CATS.
ANCIENT VARIETIES OF THE DOG—RESEMBLANCE OF DOMESTIC DOGS IN VARIOUS
COUNTRIES TO NATIVE CANINE SPECIES—ANIMALS NOT ACQUAINTED WITH MAN AT
FIRST FEARLESS—DOGS RESEMBLING WOLVES AND JACKALS—HABIT OF BARKING
ACQUIRED AND LOST—FERAL DOGS—TAN-COLOURED EYE-SPOTS—PERIOD OF
GESTATION—OFFENSIVE ODOUR—FERTILITY OF THE RACES WHEN
CROSSED—DIFFERENCES IN THE SEVERAL RACES IN PART DUE TO DESCENT FROM
DISTINCT SPECIES—DIFFERENCES IN THE SKULL AND TEETH—DIFFERENCES IN THE
BODY, IN CONSTITUTION—FEW IMPORTANT DIFFERENCES HAVE BEEN FIXED BY
SELECTION—DIRECT ACTION OF CLIMATE—WATER-DOGS WITH PALMATED
FEET—HISTORY OF THE CHANGES WHICH CERTAIN ENGLISH RACES OF THE DOG HAVE
GRADUALLY UNDERGONE THROUGH SELECTION—EXTINCTION OF THE LESS IMPROVED
SUB-BREEDS.
CATS, CROSSED WITH SEVERAL SPECIES—DIFFERENT BREEDS FOUND ONLY IN
SEPARATED COUNTRIES—DIRECT EFFECTS OF THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE—FERAL
CATS—INDIVIDUAL VARIABILITY.
CHAPTER II.—HORSES AND ASSES.
HORSE. DIFFERENCES IN THE BREEDS—INDIVIDUAL VARIABILITY OF—DIRECT
EFFECTS OF THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE—CAN WITHSTAND MUCH COLD—BREEDS MUCH
MODIFIED BY SELECTION—COLOURS OF THE HORSE—DAPPLING—DARK STRIPES ON THE
SPINE, LEGS, SHOULDERS, AND FOREHEAD…