On the Origin of Species

De: Charles Darwin

Narrado por: Peter Wickham

Perhaps the most influential science book ever written, On the Origin of Species has continued to fascinate for more than a century after its initial publication. Its controversial theory that populations evolve and adapt through a process known as natural selection led to heated scientific, philosophical, and religious debate, revolutionizing every discipline in its wake. With its clear, concise, and surprisingly enjoyable prose, On the Origin of Species is both captivating and edifying.

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Aaaaaah! A THRILL to say the least.

so cool to finally listen to this classic. it is the pedestal of modern human knowledge. if you do not know science the vernacular will leave you a little confused.
there’re charts referred to but it’s still comprehensible.
definitely need to listen to more then once.
and again and again. never run out of new information you missed last time.

Wow what depth and understanding of the natural world. Well worth the time. The discussion of ants and bees is fascinating.

Nothing comes to mind as being deficient. I find a valid explanation of how our world has evolved over time.

What an intellect!

Little did I know that Darwin was such an incredibly well rounded scientist! He made his own very detailed observations, but he also knew the worlds scientific literature. He had detailed knowledge of biology ecology geology and paleontology. His ability to reason and discover circular arguments in other peoples logic is impressive. He made very solid arguments substantiated by major pieces of evidence at a time when only dogmatic religious views dominated the intellectual world. To this day we owe him a debt of gratitude!

Beautiful!

The explanation for the struggle of life is breathtaking and astonishing. I cannot stress enough just how fascinating it is to finally know the answers to the questions I have on evolution from the genius himself. Charles Darwin's theory is a brilliant masterpiece of human understanding of the orchestra that is on the origin of species.

Darwin’s classic still reigns supreme!

In addition to the elucidation of his irrefutable “descent with modification “ concept, Darwin’s superlative use of the English language, enhanced greatly by narrator selected for this audio recording, causes this work to be nothing short of a pure delight!

Well-performed presentation of a classic work of sophistry

Very well-read performance of this classic sophistical work, a must-hear for those without the time to read. Darwin combines half-truths, errors, appeals to ignorance, ridicule, aesthetic arguments, bluster, obfuscation, inundation with irrelevant data, hegemonic and elitist rhetoric, and equivocation to persuade his contemporaries that all biological diversity arose through innumerable successive slight variations, despite massive evidence to the contrary. A true masterpiece of argumentation that has stood the test of time.

Classic, but still very relevant

The narration is superb, but Darwin sure did go into a lot of detail that most readers today probably will not be interested in. Still, I'd never take the time to read this myself, so I'm very happy there are narrations like this.

Astounding

Great performance, natural writing style, well articulated for a lay audience. It's humbling hearing such profound insights (and extreme depth of knowledge) from a man who didn't even know the mechanisms through which his theory operated (ie DNA, genetics, etc), as they had not been discovered yet (although Mendel was just about to start breaking through). This is a must-read for anyone who studied biology, and perhaps even more so for those who did not.

Groundbreaking book.

He describes the evolutionary process in such depth and provides so much evidence that it really is a wonder that people still doubt it to this day. The first addition is a little easier to get through, but this (the 6th) edition addresses all of the faulty arguments put forth by his critics at the time. After all, it’s only a theory, just like gravity.

SPOILERS!

Knowing what he's building up to and how he phrases things is a delight.