Book · 2008 · Science
On the Origin of Species
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It's really difficult to get across like the revolution and understanding that book brought.
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- Impact of the book“the revolution and understanding that book brought”3
The best things said about it
He's actually very tentative about the theory of evolution in his book.
What they don't recognize is that book in evolutionary theory ended the reign of what was known as polygenesis.
Charles Darwin when he releases the origin On the Origin of Species in 1859 he's saying oh no humans you're not special.
And so if some of you may remember, if you actually read the origin of a species, this is why he spends the first 70 plus pages on pigeons.
But what Darwin wrote about in origin species was not competition solely his intent was to talk about how we are born of cooperation.
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On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is a foundational scientific text that outlines the theory of evolution by means of natural selection. Josh Clark discussed the official title and common name of Darwin's landmark work on Stuff You Should Know. Jonathan Swanson mentioned on Modern Wisdom that Darwin relied on an army of fact-gathering assistants to collect data for the volume. Steven Monachelli referenced the 1859 publication on Behind the Bastards while discussing the roots of evolutionary theory and eugenics. Dr. Robert Epstein shared on The Joe Rogan Experience that he reread Darwin's magnum opus and noted the author's tentativeness regarding the theory of evolution. On The Book Review, Ibram X. Kendi discussed how the publication ended the reign of polygenesis in 19th-century science. Gilbert Cruz and Randall Fuller also appeared on The Book Review to discuss the book's impact on America, Henry David Thoreau's early encounter with the text upon its arrival on American shores, and the negotiations to reprint the historic volume.
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Colin Jerolmack And so if some of you may remember, if you actually read the origin of a species, this is why he spends the… 3
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“And so if some of you may remember, if you actually read the origin of a species, this is why he spends the first 70 plus pages on pigeons.”
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“To be honest, I'm not totally sure because if you, I ask people, so I ask my class, who's read The Origin of Species?”
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“And actually, when Darwin wrote The Origin of Species and gave it to his editor, the editor said, man, this stuff about pigeons is amazing. And people love pigeons so much. Let's just make a pigeon book.”
Randall Fuller and one day I was reading a biography of Henry David thow and stumbled upon a little nugget that thow had r… 3
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“and one day I was reading a biography of Henry David thow and stumbled upon a little nugget that thow had read On the Origin of Species almost as soon as it reached American Shores”
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“and gray immediately began to negotiate with American public ERS uh for the right to reprint uh On the Origin of Species”
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“Darwin's Origin of Species says nothing about humans”
Josh Clark First of all the official title of the book is On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or Th… 2
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“First of all the official title of the book is On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life. Yeah. And that's why everybody calls it Origin of the Species.”
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“the reason why is because just a couple decades before Darwin had published on the origin of the species and it's really difficult to get across like the Revolution and understanding that book brought right”
Ben Bowlin Charles Darwin when he releases the origin On the Origin of Species in 1859 he's saying oh no humans you're… 1
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“Charles Darwin when he releases the origin On the Origin of Species in 1859 he's saying oh no humans you're not special”
Dan Flores in you know and On the Origin of Species in 1859 we're out of the same evolutionary stream 1
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“in you know and On the Origin of Species in 1859 we're out of the same evolutionary stream”
David Buss you know and of course that's really what Darwin's first book On the Origin of Species was all about surviv… 1
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“you know and of course that's really what Darwin's first book On the Origin of Species was all about survival adaptations to survival”
Dr. Robert Epstein and you know I I recently reread uh you know Darwin's magnumopus just to see what he actually said and you… 1
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“and you know I I recently reread uh you know Darwin's magnumopus just to see what he actually said and you know he's actually very tentative about the theory of evolution in his book”
Ed Yong so in On the Origin of Species Darwin ended with this wonderful thing about um a tangled bank 1
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“so in On the Origin of Species Darwin ended with this wonderful thing about um a tangled bank”
Gilbert Cruz what effect did Darwin's On the Origin of Species have on America upon publication 1
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“what effect did Darwin's On the Origin of Species have on America upon publication”
Ian Crossland Thus Spoke zarathusion is the book um but the idea was that you know Darwin had had put out his his uh Orig… 1
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“Thus Spoke zarathusion is the book um but the idea was that you know Darwin had had put out his his uh Origin of Species and and people were understanding learning about Evolution”
Ibram X. Kendi yes and and I think many Americans since they've since they've heard of Charles Darwin in the Origin of Spe… 1
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“yes and and I think many Americans since they've since they've heard of Charles Darwin in the Origin of Species what they don't recognize is that book in evolutionary theory ended the reign of what was known as polygenesis”
John Williams um but give us a sense of what happened between 1859 and and the Scopes trial in 1925 in terms of how uh On… 1
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“um but give us a sense of what happened between 1859 and and the Scopes trial in 1925 in terms of how uh On the Origin of Species um was received here and the impact it had”
Jonathan Swanson Darwin delegated this whole army of fact gathering assistants to collect data for the origin of species. 1
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“Darwin delegated this whole army of fact gathering assistants to collect data for the origin of species.”
Oded Rechavi And this is in The Origin of the Species. 1
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“And this is in The Origin of the Species.”
Steven Monachelli There was Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection which was presented in Darwin's 1859 book on the ori… 1
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“There was Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection which was presented in Darwin's 1859 book on the origin of species.”
Tate Fletcher but what Darwin wrote about in origin species was not competition solely his intent was to talk about how w… 1
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“but what Darwin wrote about in origin species was not competition solely his intent was to talk about how we are born of cooperation”
Trevor Valle like 3 years later they found archaeopteris that big that big lizard bird archo early bird they found that… 1
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“like 3 years later they found archaeopteris that big that big lizard bird archo early bird they found that and then everyone went nuts it's like oh crap look Evolution fossils this is awesome”
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“there have been about 7,500 or more published about Darwin since he wrote Origin of Species in 1859”
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“and of Sojourner Truth and Uncle Tom's Cabin um and and On the Origin of Species but when we get to um the the Civil War period with 1860s two books that that focus I believe both on biology and evolution”
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“it's less well known than his most famous book The Origin of Species”