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The Origin Of Species 150th Anniversary Edition

Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin’s classic that exploded into public controversy, revolutionized the course of science, and continues to transform our views of the world. Few other books have created such a lasting storm of controversy as

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It was mentioned as an example of a 23 coincidence because when you add the numbers of its release year (1859), the sum is 23.

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Darwin's Origin of the Species was released in 1859. You add up one eight five and nine and you get 23.

— Episode: Short Stuff: The Number 23

Episode: Short Stuff: The Number 23

It was mentioned as an example of a 23 coincidence because when you add the numbers of its release year (1859), the sum is 23.

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Darwin's Origin of the Species was released in 1859. You add up one eight five and nine and you get 23.

Episode: Short Stuff: The Number 23

It was mentioned as an example of a book whose publication date, when added together, totals 23.

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Darwin's Origin of Species was released in 1859. You add up one eight five and nine and you get 23.

My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

It was mentioned as a work inspired by the Galapagos tortoises and their unique characteristics, highlighting its relevance to the discussion of the islands' biodiversity.

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The islands are of course known for their unique and wondrous creatures like giant tortoises that are used as an inspiration for Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species.

— Episode: MFM The Top 3: #2 - Episode 129 - Coinci...

Episode: MFM The Top 3: #2 - Episode 129 - Coincidence Isla...

It was mentioned as a work inspired by the Galapagos tortoises and their unique characteristics, highlighting its relevance to the discussion of the islands' biodiversity.

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The islands are of course known for their unique and wondrous creatures like giant tortoises that are used as an inspiration for Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species.

Episode: 129 - Coincidence Island

It was mentioned as a book inspired by the Galapagos tortoises, and is widely known for its contribution to evolutionary theory.

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That's what everyone knows it for, you know? The island, so motherfucking, there was like all these like Europeans and pirates and people who would take over this little island of Floriana.

Episode: MFM The Top 3: #2 - Episode 129 - Coincidence Isla...

It was mentioned as the source of inspiration for the Galapagos Islands, due to the unique wildlife including giant tortoises that reside there.

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The islands are of course known for their unique and wondrous creatures like giant tortoises that are used as an inspiration for Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species.

Episode: 129 - Coincidence Island

It was mentioned as a book inspired by the giant tortoises found on the Galapagos Islands, and was discussed in relation to the overall environment and biodiversity of the area.

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That's what everyone knows it for, you know? The island, so motherfucking, there was like all these like Europeans and pirates and people who would take over this little island of Floriana.

The Rest Is History

The hosts referenced Darwin's seminal work in a discussion of evolutionary ideas that followed its 1859 publication.

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the publication of The Origin of Species.

— Episode: 365. Le Marquis de Sade: Sex and Violenc...

Episode: 365. Le Marquis de Sade: Sex and Violence

The hosts referenced Darwin's seminal work in a discussion of evolutionary ideas that followed its 1859 publication.

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the publication of The Origin of Species.

Freakonomics Radio

The Origin of Species was mentioned, specifically the first 70 pages which focus on pigeons and how Darwin used them to illustrate his theory of evolution.

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And if you actually read The Origin of Species, this is why he spends the first 70 plus pages on pigeons.

— Episode: 361. Freakonomics Radio Live: “Jesus Cou...

Episode: 361. Freakonomics Radio Live: “Jesus Could Have Be...

The Origin of Species was mentioned, specifically the first 70 pages which focus on pigeons and how Darwin used them to illustrate his theory of evolution.

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And if you actually read The Origin of Species, this is why he spends the first 70 plus pages on pigeons.

I think the real answer to your question is nobody's actually read The Origin of Species.

Episode: 166. How to Think Like a Freak -- and Other FREAK-...

It was discussed as an example of a book that, if written by a professor at the university, would be owned by the professor and not the university.

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If you just happen to have Charles Darwin at your university and he happens to write The Origin of Species and sell a zillion copies, why wouldn't the university try to capitalize on it?

Modern Wisdom

The host noted that Darwin briefly mentioned sexual selection in this work and later added a sentence about beautiful males in later editions.

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He mentioned the idea in The Origin of Species very briefly.

— Episode: #923 - Matt Ridley - Why Evolution Favou...

Episode: #923 - Matt Ridley - Why Evolution Favours Beauty...

The host noted that Darwin briefly mentioned sexual selection in this work and later added a sentence about beautiful males in later editions.

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He mentioned the idea in The Origin of Species very briefly.

By the time of the fourth edition of The Origin of Species, he felt it necessary to put in a sentence saying, yeah, look, they are beautiful, these male birds, to us.

Behind the Bastards

It was mentioned as a book that Stalin read during his teenage years and which he believed helped lead to his atheism.

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God's not unjust, he doesn't actually exist we've been deceived if God existed he'd have made the world more just

— Episode: The Childhood of Joseph Stalin

Episode: The Childhood of Joseph Stalin

It was mentioned as a book that Stalin read during his teenage years and which he believed helped lead to his atheism.

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God's not unjust, he doesn't actually exist we've been deceived if God existed he'd have made the world more just

Episode: The Childhood of Joseph Stalin

It was mentioned as a book that Stalin enjoyed and influenced his shift to atheism. It was a favorite book of his as a teenager.

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God's not unjust, he doesn't actually exist we've been deceived if God existed he'd have made the world more just

Episode: The Childhood of Joseph Stalin

It was discussed as a book that Stalin read in his youth, which is thought to have contributed to his atheism, and was discussed as one of his favourite books as a teenager.

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God's not unjust, he doesn't actually exist we've been deceived if God existed he'd have made the world more just

Episode: The Childhood of Joseph Stalin

It was mentioned that Stalin, as a teenager, read and enjoyed it, which seemed to influence his atheism as he was discussing injustice in the world with a friend.

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God's not unjust, he doesn't actually exist we've been deceived if God existed he'd have made the world more just

StarTalk Radio

Bill Nye mentioned that Darwin's book includes detailed naturalist experiments, highlighting his impressive work beyond observational naturalism.

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And I'll add, if you ever read Origin of Species, Darwin did all kinds of very diligent naturalist experiments. He's a really impressive guy.

— Episode: Cosmic Queries: TV Sci-Fi with Bill Nye

Episode: Cosmic Queries: TV Sci-Fi with Bill Nye

Bill Nye mentioned that Darwin's book includes detailed naturalist experiments, highlighting his impressive work beyond observational naturalism.

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And I'll add, if you ever read Origin of Species, Darwin did all kinds of very diligent naturalist experiments. He's a really impressive guy.

Episode: Cosmic Queries: TV Sci-Fi with Bill Nye

It was mentioned that Charles Darwin was an impressive experimentalist and naturalist who explored evolution without any knowledge of DNA in his book, 'Origin of Species'.

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By the way, Darwin and Russell discovered evolution without any knowledge of DNA.

Don't forget if you ever read Origin of Species, Darwin did all kinds of very diligent naturalist experiments.

Episode: Cosmic Queries: TV Sci-Fi with Bill Nye

It was said that Darwin performed a lot of naturalist experiments when writing it, and that he was quite the experimentalist and observationalist.

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If you ever read Origin of Species, Darwin did all kinds of very diligent naturalist experiments.

Episode: Cosmic Queries: TV Sci-Fi with Bill Nye

It was mentioned as a book where Darwin detailed various diligent naturalist experiments, proving he was an impressive experimentalist and observationalist.

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And don't forget if you ever read Origin of Species, Darwin did all kinds of very diligent naturalist experiments.

Episode: The Story of Life on Earth with Sir David Attenbor...

It was discussed in the context of Darwin's theory of evolution, including his methods of collection and observation of evidence. It was said to be a significant influence on those interested in the natural world.

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I'm sure that people here, kids here are influenced by reading Darwin and his Darwin's account of the history of life on Earth. Just as they are on the UK.

He collected beetles or thousands of beetles.

And that led people to think, why? And some people would say, because the good Lord decided he wanted three thousand. Good Lord likes beetles.

He came up with quite an important theory. What was that? According to evolution by natural selection.

Darwin collected stuff.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha

It was mentioned as Darwin's seminal work published at age 50, marking the peak of his career.

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He published The Origin of Species at age 50 and that was a peak of his career.

— Episode: Arthur Brooks: How High Achievers Can Ba...

Episode: Arthur Brooks: How High Achievers Can Balance Succ...

It was mentioned as Darwin's seminal work published at age 50, marking the peak of his career.

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He published The Origin of Species at age 50 and that was a peak of his career.

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The publication of *The Origin of Species* in 1859 led to a growing materialist philosophy and a crisis of belief in mid-Victorian England.

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The publication of Charles Darwin's *The Origin of Species* in 1859 and so there was there was a great sort of crisis of belief in mid-Victorian England amongst philosophers and intellectuals and and...

— Episode: The Hammersmith Ghost

Episode: The Hammersmith Ghost

The publication of *The Origin of Species* in 1859 led to a growing materialist philosophy and a crisis of belief in mid-Victorian England.

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The publication of Charles Darwin's *The Origin of Species* in 1859 and so there was there was a great sort of crisis of belief in mid-Victorian England amongst philosophers and intellectuals and and religious people and people decided to look more closely into claims of the supernatural what we today call typically the paranormal

Philosophize This!

Sir Francis Galton, Darwin's cousin, was inspired by *The Origin of Species* to apply evolutionary theory to intelligence, leading him to propose eugenics.

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When Darwin writes *The Origin of Species*, Sir Francis over there gets inspired and thinks, oh, well, intelligence must be something that people are born with.

— Episode: Episode #186 ... Are we heading for a di...

Episode: Episode #186 ... Are we heading for a digital pris...

Sir Francis Galton, Darwin's cousin, was inspired by *The Origin of Species* to apply evolutionary theory to intelligence, leading him to propose eugenics.

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When Darwin writes *The Origin of Species*, Sir Francis over there gets inspired and thinks, oh, well, intelligence must be something that people are born with.

On Being with Krista Tippett

A beautiful passage from the end of the book was quoted, highlighting the grandeur of life's evolution from simple beginnings. The speaker also noted Darwin's awareness of both 'quick time' and 'deep time'.

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there is grandeur in this view of life with its several powers having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one, and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law...

— Episode: Adam Gopnik — Practicing Doubt, Redrawin...

Episode: Adam Gopnik — Practicing Doubt, Redrawing Faith

A beautiful passage from the end of the book was quoted, highlighting the grandeur of life's evolution from simple beginnings. The speaker also noted Darwin's awareness of both 'quick time' and 'deep time'.

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there is grandeur in this view of life with its several powers having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one, and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity from so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.

we behold the face of nature bright with gladness. We do not see or we forget that the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects and seeds and are thus constantly destroying life.

Episode: [Unedited] Adam Gopnik with Krista Tippett

Gopnik was overwhelmed by Darwin's gentle, witty approach to persuading the reader of his revolutionary theory. He particularly appreciated Darwin's use of dog and pigeon breeding as an analogy to illustrate natural selection.

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What overwhelmed me about On the Origin of Species is that Darwin's note, he has this fantastically revolutionary idea to offer, to put forward. He has profound evidence for it. But his note is one of a suitor. His note is not one of a dogmatist trying to club you into submission about a new idea.

It's a wonderful thing that the whole beginning of On the Origin of Species, this great epoch-making, consciousness-changing book, is not about the theory of evolution. It's about dog breeding and pigeon breeding. He says, you know how they breed dogs and pigeons? They get all those amazing varieties. So let me tell you how they do it.

They make selections and they do it consciously. And then he says if you could do all that with dogs and pigeons in 50 years, imagine what nature could do with all of biology if you gave it essentially limitless time.

There is grandeur in this view of life with its several powers having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity from so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.

Darwin disenchanted believers in heaven, but he re-enchanted lovers of earth. He thought he had found the secret of life, but he knew that nothing could solve the problems of living.

Episode: James Moore — Evolution and Wonder: Understanding...

It was described as the last great work of science where theology was an active ingredient. The book contained over 100 references to creation and showed Darwin's struggle to be respectful of existing religious and cultural assumptions while challenging them.

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when I wrote the origin of species, my faith in God was as strong as that of a bishop

If you are a creationist or you inclined to be sympathetic with what we now today, called creationism, read the origin of species.

Darwin wants to convince you in this book that God has established laws of nature on earth as in the heavens and these laws produce the forms of life that we observe.

At the beginning of the origin of species, he has a quote from Francis Bacon.

From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely the production of the higher animals directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one. And that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple to beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful, have been, and are being evolved.

Episode: James Moore — Evolution and Wonder: Understanding...

It was Darwin's explanation of creation as a self-organizing progression; he waited nearly 20 years to publish it, and once wrote to a friend that publishing it felt like 'confessing a murder'.

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my faith in God was as strong as that of a bishop

When Darwin confessed to murder, he was saying that nature is self-developing.

In the origin of species, my faith in God was as strong as that of a bishop.

So Darwin's many references to creation. There are over 100 references to creation in the origin of species.

If you are a creationist or you inclined to be sympathetic with what we now today, called creationism, read the origin of species.

Episode: [Unedited] Cal DeWitt With Krista Tippett

Darwin's book was discussed in relation to its impact on evangelical Christianity and the subsequent emergence of a mistrust of science within some segments of the religious community.

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I think the roots of this...they go back to 1859 with Darwin's Origin of Species.

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