Darwin's ghost : "The origin of species" updated / Steve Jones.

New York : Random House, [2000], ©2000.

xxix, 377 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

1st ed.

Originally published under title: Almost like a whale : The origin of species updated. London : Doubleday, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-359) and index.

Variation under domestication -- Variation under nature -- Struggle for existence -- Natural selection -- Laws of variation -- Difficulties on theory -- Instinct -- Hybridism -- On the imperfection of the geological record -- On the geological succession of organic beings -- Geographical distribution -- Geographical distribution (continued) -- Mutual affinities of organic beings: morphology, embryology, rudimentary organs -- Interlude: almost like a whale? -- Recapitulation and conclusion.