BioSec: Evolution

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)