
The Origin of Species
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Narrated by:
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David Case
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By:
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Charles Darwin
Not quite offering the misleading tautological Spencerian claim of "survival of the fittest", or the claim that man descends from monkeys (a typical perversion of the understanding of natural selection), the book did turn much of the world and how man thinks about it upside down. It is, well more than a century after its first publication, still a powerful and fascinating read.
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Great concept
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this is thick material, actually, & was hard to retain much of the detail compared to the overall themes
Darwin here is discussing the ins outs ups & downs of evolution by natural selection, which is a hurdle or 💡 when classifying taxonomies
w/ proper classification comes more accurate predictions, & a "story" forms
this is to say, there were moments/points in the book where i diverged, such as his usage of "globe" when talking about Earth & his insistence on a Pangea-like continent
another so-so surpriser was the complete lack of dinosaurs in this work, as it was published before the dino craze went wild [see: invented by charlatans]
he explains how a given area on an island, for instance, will have significantly less diversity than an equal space on a continental area, which makes logical sense
he says that species drift is checked to a large extent by sterility & 'the struggle,' which eliminates the weak/ill-fitted in favor of the most adapted
i'm actually fresh enough on his content to try another book
surprisingly good; measured; practical
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I really liked the narrator. He's British, the book is British, he obviously cared a lot about what he was doing and practiced before he recorded. Very clear, easy to understand, properly inflected.
I loved it
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Don't knock it till you have read it
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Brilliant Writer
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Case is tedious
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Good if your interested in this type of stuff
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What made the experience of listening to The Origin of Species the most enjoyable?
While some of the other reviews show that the narrator is not universally popular, I could listen to David Case (aka Frederick Davidson) read the London phone book. Darwin's prose is notoriously dry, but read by this narrator listening to the Origin of Species is not only intellectually exciting but an aural delight.In Defence of a Glorious Narrator
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Although it is not all accurate, it was a stunning piece of work for its time. Any serious Biology enthusiast should read this book, seeing as how all modern evolutionary science references it.
The audiobook is very long, a little dry, and I don't know what version it is either; suffering through the audiobook is better than reading the hard copy though. There is no way around it, push through it, and you'll be glad you did :)
Historically Significant
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Like with many of the pantheon of scientific geniuses (Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, etc) there was a bit of luck involved. The ground was ready for Darwin's seed. There were enough scholars and scientists and rationalists around to carry his idea(s) hither and thither. So while the book, and Darwin himself, were both stellar examples of scientific restraint, the force of his book can't be under appreciated. It was just the right time and right place for a revolution. Darwin and his little book walked by a labour of scientific mouldywarps who happened to find themselves on the chalk cliffs of science, pushed those sterile hybrids off, and never looked back. Evolve, batches! (I couldn't keep the word I wanted because Audible has a problem with either female dogs or categorical imperatives).
The audio is just ok. David Case, RIP, did a fine job of narration. The audio quality of the digital book just wasn't great. It wasn't pulled from the original master, but from the audio tapes and that is obvious both in its low quality and those few occasions when the audiobook tells you it is time to flip the tape over. Ah, well, at least it didn't talk about rotary phones.
Evolve, ubi sunt canes!
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