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The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication
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discussed in biography
- In Charles Darwin: The patriarch in his home laboratory
In Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication (1868) he marshaled the facts and explored the causes of variation in domestic breeds. The book answered critics such as George Douglas Campbell, the eighth duke of Argyll, who loathed Darwin’s blind, accidental process of variation and envisaged…
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influence on Burbank
- In Luther Burbank
…books of Charles Darwin, especially The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication (1868). At the age of 21 he purchased a 7-hectare (17-acre) tract near Lunenberg, Massachusetts, and began a 55-year plant-breeding career that almost immediately saw the development of the Burbank, or Idaho, potato. Selling the rights to…
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