✔ An extract from "The Origin of Species" ✔ The book that changed the world, written when there was not yet a concept of DNA ✔ An accessible book for anyone interested in the subject
★★★★☆ The book that everyone knows and changed the world instantly. Sure if you read it today everything sounds too normal and ordinary but then you realise there was no concept of DNA, back then. An extraordinary book.
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I picked this up when I couldn't fall asleep. It's an extract of one of the most influential book in history "The Origin of Species".
Completely my fault (for having so little interest in science, first of all) but it was difficult to grasp, because to us living today, what he says here has become normal. The grand discoveries are no so chocking to us now, it feels like he goes on about things we all know - but then you will have to realise that THAT's what makes the book great, he completely changed the perspectives so that regular folks like myself today feel it's absolutely common sense.
There was a TV program the other day (back in 2017) where David Attenborough talked about Darwin. An interviewer asked him, if Darwin were to visit us today, what would he be surprised about, Attenborough's didn't hesitate to answer "that we've discovered DNA". He also said, we must appreciated the fact that Darwin didn't even know the concept of DNA yet he wrote The Origin of Species, and that he was not a genius kind of person, he was a scientist who was into collecting insects since childhood - that is why what he left for us is extraordinary.
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