Charles Darwin’s work has fanned out to round about every corner of the world, his work entrenched in every naturalist, scientist and biologist of our time, with his writings and findings written in almost every curriculum taught to undergraduate and postgraduate students studying life sciences. Which was my first encounter in Charles Darwin and all he and his work was about - Darwin’s finches, natural selection, evolution over time and his revolutionary voyage on the HMS Beagle was in just about every genetics module and evolution base modules I was taught.

I’ve been encountering snippets of his work all throughout my studies, a quote here, an excerpt there and thought it was about time I go straight to the source and read On the Origin of Species. It’s such an original, a legend in its own right in its revolutionary reports and observations. I find it quite frankly amazing how much this amazing man deduced and discovered considering it was during a time when many of the scientific discoveries we have come to know now as common knowledge (like DNA) were unheard of back then.

I’m glad I finally got round the reading the writings of the man who shaped our world in so many ways with the science he produced in this book. I feel like I can call myself a scientist and a science lover now that I’ve read these writings that’s at the heart of our genetics and evolutionary knowledge, providing the foundations to springboard into our current age of scientific enlightenment and discovery!