BioSec: Evolution

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Purpose:

To retell Darwin's argument associating the biological with the technological.

The sections are as follows:

CHAPTER I

VARIATION UNDER DOMESTICATION.

  • Causes of Variability (Elizabeth)
  • Effects of Habit and the use or disuse of Parts
  • Correlated Variation (Annie)
  • Inheritance
  • Character of Domestic Varieties (Annie)
  • Difficulty of distinguishing between Varieties and Species (Annie)
  • Origin of Domestic Varieties from one or more Species
  • Domestic Pigeons, their Differences and Origin
  • Principles of Selection, anciently followed, their Effects
  • Methodical and Unconscious Selection
  • Unknown Origin of our Domestic Productions (Elizabeth)
  • Circumstances favourable to Man's power of Selection. (Elizabeth)