Origin of Species by Charles darwin

Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin

It is true that Charles Darwin has probably had more effect on modern science and thought than any other single human being. The problem is that his theory is full of holes - the facts, honestly observed, do not support the thesis. The book is important - not because it is "right" or "helps" anything, but because it has had such a major influence on thinking men and women. Sadly, it has generally had the result of influencing thought to go in incorrect directions, and much of what has followed from Darwin's ideas are false and useless (such as the majority of modern psychology, psychiatry and the social sciences - scientific racism, eugenics, electric shock, psychoactive drugs, behaviorism, communism - all views which hold Man to be solely biological in nature with no mental component of any importance ).

In a very real sense, Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection is the foundation upon which much of modern social thought is based. One needs to understand Darwin, what he said, how his evolutionary ideas have "evolved", how they are false, and the tremendous harm believing and following such unfounded ideas has had on civilization. Get this book and read it with this in mind. Don't read it to "find truth" - it's not here. Read it to discover how thinking Men can err so badly in conceiving about themselves, where they came from, what they are, and what it all means.

Reviews
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It's hard to talk about The Origin of Species without making statements that seem overwrought and fulsome. But it's true: this is indeed one of the most important and influential books ever written, and it is one of the very few groundbreaking works of science that is truly readable.

To a certain extent it suffers from the Hamlet problem - it's full of clichés! Or what are now clichés, but which Darwin was the first to pen. Natural selection, variation, the struggle for existence, survival of the fittest: it's all in here.

Darwin's friend and "bulldog" T.H. Huxley said upon reading the Origin, "How extremely stupid of me not to have thought of that." Alfred Russel Wallace had thought of the same theory of evolution Darwin did, but it was Darwin who gathered the mass of supporting evidence - on domestic animals and plants, on variability, on sexual selection, on dispersal - that swept most scientists before it. It's hardly necessary to mention that the book is still controversial: Darwin's remark in his conclusion that "Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history" is surely the pinnacle of British understatement. - Mary Ellen Curtin

Synopsis
Charles Darwin's THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES is one of the landmark works that has helped shape the modern world. The book has fresh applications today for its pioneering views on the ecology of plants and animals.

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