Question: What did Darwin's contemporaries think of the long delays on his publishing?
Answer: Darwin's contemporaries thought the time he took was reasonable

Question: What was Darwin's process on writing his books?
Answer: Darwin always finished one book before starting another

Question: What was Darwin's original estimate for the amount of time his book would take to write?
Answer: five years

Question: Which scientist's study theorized that the idea of Darwin's work being delayed dates to the 1940s?
Answer: John van Wyhe

Question: What was the cost for the first published copies of On the Origin of Species?
Answer: fifteen shillings

Question: How many copies of On the Origin of Species were created in the first printing?
Answer: 1250 copies

Question: Where was the book, On the Origin of Species first offered for sale?
Answer: Murray's autumn sale

Question: How many editions did On the Origin of Species go through during Darwin's lifetime?
Answer: six editions

Question: Which institution bought 500 copies of the book, ensuring that a large number of people would have access to it?
Answer: Mudie's Library

Question: What did On the Genesis of Species argue against natural selection?
Answer: claimed it included false metaphysics

Question: Who wrote On the Genesis of Species?
Answer: George Jackson Mivart

Question: When did Charles Darwin first use the word "evolution" in On the Origin of Species?
Answer: the sixth edition

Question: What did Charles Darwin do to address Mivart's arguments?
Answer: added a new chapter VII,

Question: What was chapter VII entitled?
Answer: Miscellaneous objections

Question: Why couldn't Asa Gray use a Boston publisher for an American version of On the Origin of Species?
Answer: two New York publishing firms were already planning to exploit the absence of international copyright to print Origin

Question: How much of a royalty was Gray able to negotiate with a New York publisher for On the Origin of Species?
Answer: a 5% royalty

Question: When was the first American edition of On the Origin of Species published?
Answer: mid January 1860

Question: What did Darwin decide to do with the profits of the American version of On the Origin of Species?
Answer: asked Gray to keep any profits

Question: What was the print run that Darwin mentioned for On the Origin of Species?
Answer: 2,500 copies

Question: Who was the German translator that Darwin welcomed for On the Origin of Species?
Answer: Heinrich Georg Bronn,

Question: What did Bronn do in his translation that went completely against what Darwin wanted in On the Origin of Species?
Answer: the German translation published in 1860 imposed Bronn's own ideas, adding controversial themes that Darwin had deliberately omitted.

Question: What did Bronn change "Favoured Races" to in his translated edition of On the Origin of Species?
Answer: "perfected races"

Question: Who published an improved translation of On the Origin of Species in 1867?
Answer: Julius Victor Carus

Question: Why was Darwin unhappy with the first French translation of On the Origins of Species?
Answer: numerous explanatory notes giving her own answers to doubts that Darwin expressed

Question: What was Isaac Newton's belief about God  on the theory of natural law?
Answer: a rational God who established a law-abiding cosmos

Question: Whose epigraph did Darwin add to On the Origin of Species harmonizing God with science and miracles together?
Answer: Joseph Butler

Question: Whose letter does the introduction to On the Origin of Species refer?
Answer: John Herschel

Question: In which edition of On the Origin of Species was the epigraph from Joseph Butler added?
Answer: the second edition

Question: How far back does Chapter One of On the Origin of Species go in its coverage of animal and plant species?
Answer: ancient Egypt

Question: What does Darwin use to illustrate the effects of artificial selection?
Answer: fancy pigeon breeding

Question: From what does Darwin assert all pigeons are descended?
Answer: one species of rock pigeon

Question: Which evolutionary changes were the most important to Darwin?
Answer: the small changes

Question: What does Darwin believe about the differences between species and varieties?
Answer: is arbitrary

Question: What does Darwin theorize about different species with regard to variety?
Answer: "species are only strongly marked and permanent varieties"

Question: What did Darwin and Wallace make central to understanding the natural world?
Answer: variation among individuals of the same species

Question: What did Darwin say that a "well marked variety" could be called?
Answer: incipient species"

Question: What did historians say that naturalists generally thought about the differences in variations in a species?
Answer: generally considered such variations to be limited and unimportant deviations from the archetype of each species

Question: What is the struggle that Darwin describes about population likened to?
Answer: doctrine of Malthus

Question: Within what frame of reference does Darwin use the phrase "Struggle for Existence?"
Answer: "a large and metaphorical sense

Question: What was Charles Lyell's perception of what organisms are exposed to in their struggle for survival?
Answer: all organisms are exposed to severe competition

Question: When is competition strongest in the natural world?
Answer: competition is most severe between closely related forms

Question: Why is competition so fierce between related species?
Answer: fill nearly the same place in the economy of nature".

Question: What did Darwin say that artificial selection by animal breeders often causes?
Answer: sharp divergence in character between breeds,

Question: What did Darwin say could happen somewhere if there is a change in conditions?
Answer: extinction of some species

Question: What can happen if species immigrate to a new location?
Answer: descendants of some species became adapted to new conditions

Question: What does Darwin say can explain diverse feature such as antlers on deer and bright feathers on certain male birds?
Answer: sexual selection, driven by competition between males for mates

Question: Which of Darwin's written works has more in depth information about sexual selection?
Answer: The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

Question: What did Darwin expect to see between species with the addition of artificial selection?
Answer: no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and infinite complexity of the coadaptations between all organic beings

Question: What did Darwin use to illustrate the way that original species change and adapt into new ones?
Answer: a tree diagram and calculations

Question: What is the theory that is based on acquired characteristics within a species?
Answer: Lamarckism

Question: What did Darwin learn about about the characteristics of domestic animals?
Answer: use in our domestic animals strengthens and enlarges certain parts, and disuse diminishes them

Question: What did Darwin speculate might be how inheritable variations might come about in a species?
Answer: environmental factors

Question: What did Darwin admit about acquired characteristics in chapter one of On the Origin of Species?
Answer: "The laws governing inheritance are quite unknown."

Question: What did Darwin learn about variations by observing breeders?
Answer: breeders were able to select such variations and produce huge differences in many generations of selection

Question: When was The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication by Charles Darwin published?
Answer: 1868

Question: What was the hypothesis that attempted to explain heredity?
Answer: hypothesis of pangenesis.

Question: While Darwin wasn't sure about blending inherited traits, what was his opinion about utilizing inherited variation?
Answer: Darwin's concept of selection working on a population with a range of small variations was workable