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A review by paigemcloughlin
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
5.0
I read this several times the last reading being some time in 2020. I am going just drop Abigail Thorn's take here and will write a review when I pick it up again which no doubt I will.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfYvLlbXj_8
required viewing before reaching for Evolutionary psychology arguments.
Update 6/16/2021 Okay the argument of the population with variations and reproduction being an exponential process of growth with a culling due to limited resources generates forms that survive well ending up doing better than varieties at a disadvantaged. It is a brutal and ugly process with some beautiful products like the nineteenth-century Britain of the industrial revolution. It is interesting that Darwin and Wallace are both products of a brutal society producing fine things on an industrial scale making huge amounts of goods and impoverishing the weak. Darwin looms large then and reflects some beautiful theories written in bloody conflict. Darwin was a naturalist but for good and bad his idea had legs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfYvLlbXj_8
required viewing before reaching for Evolutionary psychology arguments.
Update 6/16/2021 Okay the argument of the population with variations and reproduction being an exponential process of growth with a culling due to limited resources generates forms that survive well ending up doing better than varieties at a disadvantaged. It is a brutal and ugly process with some beautiful products like the nineteenth-century Britain of the industrial revolution. It is interesting that Darwin and Wallace are both products of a brutal society producing fine things on an industrial scale making huge amounts of goods and impoverishing the weak. Darwin looms large then and reflects some beautiful theories written in bloody conflict. Darwin was a naturalist but for good and bad his idea had legs.