Charles Darwin, naturalist, author, biologist.

Contents based on the facsimile edition of the Origin edited by, the late, Ernst Mayr

On the Origin of Species (by Means of Natural Selection)

Table of Contents

	Charles Darwin's words in the Origin	Alfred Russel Wallace (1859) Wallace's manuscript words
Chapters
1	Variation under Domestication	"varieties in a state of domesticity"
2	Variation under Nature	2. The Law of Population of Species
3	Struggle for Existence	1. "Struggle for existence"
4	Natural Selection
5	Laws of Variation	Useful variation
6	Difficulties on Theory	3. perfect adaptation to the conditions of existence
7	Instinct
8	Hybridization Reversion of Domesticated varieties
9	On the Imperfection of the Geological Record
10	On the Geological succession of organic beings
11	Geographical Distribution (A)
12	Geographical Distribution (B)
13	Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings
14	Recapitulation and Conclusion

On the Origin of Species

commentary by Joseph Siry

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