However unlike most scientific papers, his target audience is not specific to the men of his field. ... Darwin carefully crafts his opening chapter to immediately grant him credit with the scientific community, but more importantly, the commoner through the use of common examples that essentially all people at the time had first hand experience with: domestic plants and animals. He first establishes themes that he, in subsequent chapters, later elaborates and extrapolates to all of nature. ... In addition to observing natural selection in domestic plant and animals, Darwin describes other...

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