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The hosts identified the work as Darwin's seminal 1859 book that introduced natural selection, noting its long formal title and its common shorthand name. They also recalled reading its final paragraph on the entangled bank.
the official title of the book is On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life. And that's why everybody calls it Origin of Spec...
— Episode: Selects: How Charles Darwin Worked
Episode: Selects: How Charles Darwin Worked
The hosts identified the work as Darwin's seminal 1859 book that introduced natural selection, noting its long formal title and its common shorthand name. They also recalled reading its final paragraph on the entangled bank.
the official title of the book is On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life. And that's why everybody calls it Origin of Species. Because it's long and wordy.
when his on the origin of the species came out in 1859, he was at a spa, recovering from bouts of nausea. He was basically writing any article he could to defend his theory.
the last paragraph of the origin of the species to me is one of the most beautiful things ever written. ... it is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth...