ABSTRACT
Natural Selection—its power compared with man’s selection—its power on characters of trifling importance—its power at all ages and on both sexes— Sexual Selection—On the generality of intercrosses between individuals of the same species—Circumstances favourable aad unfavourable to Natural Selection, namely, intercrossing, isolation, number of individuals— Slow actionExtinction caused by Natural Selection— Divergence of Character, related to the diversity of inbabitants of any small area, and to naturalisation— Action of Natural Selection, through Divergence of Character and Extinction, on the descendants from a common parent—Explains the Grouping of all organic beings.
