Understanding Evolution in Darwin's "Origin"

Chapter 1 Introduction: Why Read the “Origin of Species”?

Chapter 2 Debates About Life’s Origin and Adaptive Powers in the Early Nineteenth Century

Chapter 3 The Darwinian Not Too Strictly Balanced Arrangement Between Cuvier and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire

Chapter 4 An Amazing Journey: Darwin and the Fuegians

Chapter 5 Darwin’s First Writings: From the Beagle Voyage to His Transmutation Notebooks (1837–1839) and Essay (1844)

Chapter 6 The Development of Darwin’s Theory: From Natural Theology to Natural Selection

Chapter 7 “Great as Immensity, Deep as Eternity”: What Could the Grandeur of Life Say About God’s Existence, According to Darwin?

Chapter 8 Mr. Darwin’s Beloved Barnacles: Using Cirripedes to Understand Evolution in “Origin of Species”

Chapter 9 Wallace, Darwin, and the Relationship Between Species and Varieties (1858)

Chapter 10 There Have Been Few Such Naturalists Before, but Still…: Darwin’s Public Account of Predecessors

Chapter 11 You Too Can Find “Grandeur in This View of Life”: A Linguistic Remedy for Resisting the Desire to Abandon Darwin’s Origin of Species

Chapter 12 Origin’s Chapter I: How Breeders Work Their Magic

Chapter 13 Origin’s Chapter II: Darwin’s Ideas on Variation Under the Lens of Current Evolutionary Genetics

Chapter 14 Origin’s Chapter III: The Two Faces of Natural Selection

Chapter 15 Origin’s Chapter IV: The Newton of the Blade of Grass

Chapter 16 Origin’s Chapter V: How “Random” Is Evolutionary Change?

Chapter 17 Origin’s Chapter VI: The Initial Difficulties of Darwin’s Theory

Chapter 18 Origin’s Chapter VII. Darwin and the Instinct: Why Study Collective Behaviors Performed Without Knowledge of Their Purposes?

Chapter 19 Origin’s Chapter VIII: Darwin for and Against Hybridism

Chapter 20 Origin’s Chapter IX and X: From Old Objections to Novel Explanations: Darwin on the Fossil Record

Chapter 21 Origin’s Chapter XI and XII: “Seed! Seed! Seed!”: Geographical Distribution in on the Origin of Species

Chapter 22 Origin’s Chapter XIII. The Meaning of Classification, Morphology, Embryology, and Rudimentary Organs to the Theory of Descent with Modifications

Chapter 23 Origins’ Chapter XIV: The Good Old Habit of Summarizing

Chapter 24 Continuities and Ruptures: Comparing Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species ” and the Modern Synthesis

Chapter 25 From the Modern Synthesis to the Other (Extended, Super, Postmodern…) Syntheses