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DARWIN, De la Variation des Animaux et des Plantes à l'état domestique, 1879

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DARWIN, Charles. 

De la Variation des Animaux et des Plantes à l'état domestique. 

Paris, C. Reinwald et Cie, 1879.

Two large 8vo (225x140 mm), xiii-(3)-494 pages / (4)-523 pages.  binding : Publisher full cloth signed by Lenègre. Joints splitting on volume II. 

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French edition on the second english edition.
In addition to the remarks on the domestication of animals (which is a bias of unnatural selection) Darwin exposes in this book for the first time his theory of Pangenesis.
Darwin seeks there a support of hereditary information and puts forward the hypothesis of cellular buds which would transmit the characters of the parents. The hypothesis is false but we feel that genetics are in fact not very far.

provenance: Bookplate from M&H Hocquette.

Price : 150 €

Photo DARWIN, Charles. 
Photo DARWIN, Charles. 
Photo DARWIN, Charles. 
Photo DARWIN, Charles. 
Photo DARWIN, Charles. 
Photo DARWIN, Charles. 
Photo DARWIN, Charles. 
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