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The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

Plaintext for Charles Darwin's "The Descent of Man"

(277697 words/1652184 characters)

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ResourceObject["The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex"]
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TextCases[ ResourceData[ "The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex"], "Paragraph"][[300]]
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PairedHistogram[ StringLength /@ TextWords[ ResourceData[ "The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex"]], StringLength /@ TextWords[ResourceData["On the Origin of Species"]], Automatic]
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BarChart[ TakeLargest[ Counts[Interpreter["Country"][ ToLowerCase /@ TextCases[ ResourceData[ "The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex"], "Country"]]], 20] // Reverse, BarOrigin -> Left, ChartLabels -> Automatic]
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Wolfram Research, "The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex" from the Wolfram Data Repository (2017)   https://doi.org/10.24097/wolfram.51346.data

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  • Title: The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
  • Creator: Charles Darwin
  • Date: 24 February 1871
  • Language: English

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  • Publisher of Record: Wolfram Research