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"The Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin

book review by Riley Burnham 4/21/2023

surprisingly good; measured; practical

audiobook good enough 👍👍

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