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Liked It1 of 1 members found this review helpful “One of most important works ever written. It is sad, bordering on absurd, that 150 years after Darwin's genuinely pardigm-shifting explanation of natural selection and species evolution, that fewer than half of the US population believe in evolution. This is akin to not "believing" in gravity. ...” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“You really can't talk about The Origin of Species if you haven't read the book. What impressed me the most was the incredibly meticulous, careful, methodical research and observations he describes. There's very little to argue with here (that may surprise people who haven't actually read it). ”
K. A. Krisko wrote this review 11 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Excruciatingly boring. Nil pois.”
Maria Demetrious wrote this review Monday, April 30, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“fascinating! ”
Chloe C wrote this review Thursday, March 29, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Reading origin of species makes you appreciate humbleness of a person who worked for 23 years and then asserts that his work is incomplete. The reason why science is always better than any other method of understanding the world is because it looks at problems not as something to avoided but a challenge to be uncovered ”
GargSaurabh wrote this review Thursday, March 22, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I think as I biologist this should be on your list. So now it is. A difficult book, but great. Darwin must have been a genius to write this books (the same for Wallace, he had the same idea at the same time, only Darwin got the credits). It is written in the 19th century but it doesn't read like that, it is quite modern, I think. His ideas were very progressive for that time. Just setting aside the idea of the creating of the world by God. He is the first to suggest that because of evolution the world should be older, much older. And all species cannot be creating at once, because of adaption to the environment and survival of the fittest. Amazing, that is what I think of the book.”
moonflower wrote this review Wednesday, March 21, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“The first chapter was a little hard to follow, but it was all together fascinating. It seems that everyone thinks they know what this book is about, but how many people have actually read it?”
Hope wrote this review Thursday, March 15, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Excellent book for the needy on where in the heck we come from.”
Sky Lord wrote this review Wednesday, February 29, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“The origin of species... well it's exactly that, so really looking forward to cracking that spine.”
Shahzil Mohamed wrote this review Sunday, February 12, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
