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DARWIN (CHARLES) The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, John Murray, 1868
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DARWIN (CHARLES)
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, illustrations in the text, 32-page publisher's catalogue dated April 1867 in volume 1, publisher's green cloth [Freeman 877; Garrison-Morton 224.1; Norman 597], 8vo, John Murray, 1868
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This work "intended to provide overwhelming evidence for the ubiquity of variation" and refuted the idea "that variations had not occurred purely by chance but were providentially directed" (ODNB). It also included the first appearance of the phrase "survival of the fittest."
