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Happy 150th Anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species ! That's all.
... Sea Power
Doves
Silversun Pickups
3 books that have been on the to-read list among the longest:
The Republic
On the Origin of Species
Etoro Social Structure
So sometime yesterday, while still perhaps a smidgen under the influence from the night before, I finally finished reading The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, which places my total at 123.
... quarter:
1) Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos
2) The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
3) On The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
4) Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
5) The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
... with a philosopher/thief woman. They often discuss evolution and creationism and their merits. This is before Darwin's On the Origin of Species .
I really liked this story. Though I thought there were ssome faults. For one, though it was nice to know what was going on with Napolean, I ...
... ist
567--Fossil cold-blooded vertebrates: Lone Star Dinosaurs
570--Life sciences:
576--Genetics & evolution: The Origin of Species
580--Plants:
590--Zoological sciences:
591--Zoology: Animals in Translation
592--Invertebrates: The Earth Moved
597--Cold-bl ...
#84 On The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
It has taken me a shamefully long time to read this, given that every single biology prof I have even taken a class with (and they are legion) said that all scientists should read this. And they are right! We should. But so should all non-scien ...
... his importance."
I find Darwin generally very readable. Not only Origin, but especially Voyage of the Beagle. Surely Origin is as readable as much of the stuff that had been suggested before my proposal? As a foundational text of a significant branch of knowledge that is one of the most ...
...
BTW - agree in re the problems w/ reading Darwin. He had some great sentences, but i've never completed even the Origin of Species - but that doesn't deny his importance.
... major works)
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems by Kurt Gödel
Consciousness Explained ...
... is interested it might be worth a call. The slipcase was a bit worn, if you ask me, but otherwise it looked nice. (I got On The Origin Of Species last week so am sticking with that for the time being)
Still reading On the Origin of Species , still reading Mary Barton, still reading Ahead of All Parting. Not a lot of free time for reading right now, so I expect to be reading these three books for the next few weeks.
Didn't notice the new thread, so I'm copying this over from last week's.
This week I'm reading On The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin and The Western Canon by the incredibly cranky Harold Bloom (how dare anyone make him read non-white, non-male authors!! gasp!! The horror!!). My ...
I liked Gods Behaving Badly, too. Really fun read.
This week I'm reading On The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, The Western Canon by the incredibly cranky Harold Bloom (how dare anyone make him read non-white, non-male authors!! gasp!! The horror!!). My fiction choice ...
#7 jfretting - unless you're a biologist or orthinologist I'd suggest dropping Origin of the Species for Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle. I've read both and Voyage is considerably more interesting.
I'm almost finished with The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and my nonfiction book is On The Origin of Species .
I'm finally reading The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. I am going to read it all the way through this time, and not stop in the middle of the pigeon chapter because I think it's boring.
... obsolete, but it is still important to read historically important books. In other words, books that changed society.
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Principles of Geology by Charles Lyell
The Republic by Plato
Th ...
... all until next monday, and am planning on spending Friday day parked on my couch reading. I received 2 separate copies of On The Origin of Species , since everyone knows that I think it is a book all scientists should be required to read, although I have not yet myself read it. (Neither gave me ...
... the level of complexity that we see in living things all around us could arise from simpler beginnings. After reading the Origin , people understood how that could happen.
... that's OK.
"My only real exposure is reading Origins some years ago" You didn't get any idea of mutations from Origin , unless you read an annotated edition with explanations of differences to modern theory.
"I did see a book title that mentioned something about symbiosis" I ...
166. "Youth, a Narrative" by Joseph Conrad 05/23/09
167. Venus in Furs by Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch 05/24/09
168. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin 05/25/09
169. Watchmen by Alan Moore ill. Dave Gibbons 05/25/09
170. Anathem by Neal Stephenson 05/26/09
FILM: The Killing ...
166. Youth, a Narrative by Joseph Conrad 05/23/09
167. Venus in Furs by Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch 05/24/09
168. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin 05/25/09
The Origin of Species ?
... Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut
The Darling Buds of May by HE Bates
The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted by Elizabeth Berg
On The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Finished The Origin of Species from my banned books reading list. Whew.
Still working on:
The Adventures of Augie March (National Book Award list)
Then It Was Destroyed by the Volcano (library book)
His Dark Materials (read-aloud-with-husband book)
The Divine Comedy (The Green Dra ...
Just finished The Origin of Species from my banned books list. Very very long, but interesting, and clearly an important work that I'm glad I've read.
19. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (banned books list)
Huh. I'm not exactly sure what to say about this one. Interesting, yet very, very long. I was, however, really surprised that I could understand it without rereading each sentence several times, and that makes me happy.
Here's what I'm working on now:
-The Adventures of Augie March (National Book Award list)
-The Origin of Species (banned books list)
-The Confessions of St. Augustine and The Imitation of Christ (library book)
-His Dark Materials (read-aloud-with-husband book)
-The Divine Comedy ...
... HF.
Not that I've read it....yet!
But since it is 200 years since Darwins birth and 150 years since the publication of Origin of the Species just have to add this one to the list Mr. Darwin's Shooter by Roger McDonald.
... most?" then there would be things like the Bible (wrong touchstone, but it must have read my mind...), the Koran, On the origin of species , The wealth of nations, The communist manifesto, etc., surprisingly few of which I've actually read myself.
You might also come up with ...
... Game on recommendation from my daughter -- I hope in March. And I want to read both The Voyage of the Beagle and On the Origin of Species this year, too. So I can't wait to read your reviews.
I hope your bio exam went ok and good luck with your reading challenge! :)
--BJ
... "science, fiction, -sci-fi" you get mostly non-fiction books (A short history of nearly everything, Gödel Escher Bach, The origin of species , The god delusion) - I don't know if that's evidence of malicious tagging, or just that if enough people have a particular book, someone among them ...
... it, much not as much as the first book. I would like to read something next to celebrate Darwin's 200th birthday. Maybe The Origin of Species or a biography. Any suggestions? :-)
... Girl with No Shadow, I'm trying to find something to read to celebrate Darwin's 200th birthday. I should probably go with The Origin of Species since I've never read it....
Cheers!
~Corrina
... interested. His birthday present from me last year was a beautiful (if I say so) boxed set of The Voyage of the Beagle, On the Origin of the Species , and The Descent of Man, and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. He hasn't managed to read them yet but I'll make him soon! ...
... Did anyone in France see the relevance of Darwin's work when it was published? And what impact subsequently did Darwin's On the Origin of Species have on continental evolutionary thought?
But saying all that doesn't diminish for a second the impact The Origin of Species . I think for a lot of people it killed religion for them, it certainly caused a huge upheaval, which I find exhilarating that it's still being discussed and debated now.
A book that's currently being discussed ...
So, where does that put The origin of species ? Darwin didn't spring from nothing, even if the ideas he put to print certainly wasn't common goods at the time...
... I picked Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Or The Age of Reason. Or Democracy in America. I really want to pick On the Origin of Species , but I think I'll give them a break for a while. (We take turns picking, so our definition of "classic" is truly elastic. Too elastic for my taste ...
... is no way to judge the motives or forces driving the publication.
While considering this I also realized I forgot to add The origin of the species to the list of books that shaped both society and discourse, across a lot of fields - not only that of biology.
ETA - see, this is what happens ...
I've got *way* too many books going at once:
Paperweight
The Origin of Species
The Confessions of St. Augustine
His Dark Materials
The Golden Ass
Little Women
The Story of Mankind
His Excellency: George Washington
At this rate, I'll never finished any of these!
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Well, it's Darwin Year, with the 200th anniversary of his birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species , and I have so much Darwin-related literature lying around here UNREAD, that I have resolved to get it all behind me this year and then I'll know ...
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Around here The Origin of the Species is really unpopular and in some neighborhoods the vast majority believe that the ideas in it cause mortal harm. Are you saying that it is OK to ban it? I am sure that my local congressman, John Boehner House Minority Leader, would not love to vote to ...
edrandrew: I'm in the middle of reading The Origin of Species myself, and I agree so far that it is stunning. I believe Darwin is one of the few *actual* geniuses (a word that gets misused way too often, I think).
... a horse from Sydney to Bathurst and then sailed down to Tasmania in the HMS Beagle . Mr Darwin's was quite a writer On the Origin of the Species was a best seller not just for revealing ground breaking discoveries. 2009 is 200 years from his birth and 150 years since On the Origin of ...
5) The Origin of Species came next because there seems to have been a deficiency in the factual recently. Quite stunning in its way - but surely in need of an update in the light of genetics, DNA and plate techtonics. Not that the conclusions need to be changed, just that te argument becomes ...
... is a creator of lies himself, and there is no evolution of the species so it need not be taught in school, and if you find Origin of the Species , burn it.
There are whole sub cultures that do just that. So already there are people out there making the decision to ban for reasons of their own.
... to a pretty good start to me! :) I have a couple of Darwin books that I want to read this year, Voyage of the Beagle and On the Origin of Species . I just read a pretty interesting review of both on LT.
Happy New Year!
--BJ
... picture him as Sting, for whatever strange reason).
Right now I'm in the middle of:
Paperweight by Stephen Fry
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
The Confessions of St. Augustine
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Practi ...
... myself to actually sit down and do it. I hope you love it! Take your time, though--I have plenty to read before I pick up Origin of the Species ! :-)
I'm reading The Origin of Species , which is honestly not nearly as dry as I thought it would be (so far, at least).
... Of course, I've read all the Harry Potter series. Would classics include non-fiction like The Anatomy of Melancholy and The Origin of Species ?
... as well, grappling, as so many of his time did, with the moral and ethical implications of Darwin's recently published Origin of Species .
I am in some ways an unforgiving or narrow-minded reader of fiction: I look for character development, plot and emotional grab. These attributes are ...
... and even it out to 80 . . . .
Among the 79, though, was some 'heavy liftin' as I say:
The Divine Comedy by Dante
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
The Aeneid by Virgil
The entire Lonesome Dove series
A good year, overall!
... McMurtry {3/12}
4. The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman {3/19}
5. On the Nature of Things by Lucretius {5/3}
6. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin {5/25}
7. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn {6/20}
8. The Fall of Constantinople 1453 by Steven Runc ...
... by Neal Gabler
Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs by Buddy Levy
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
American Gospel by Jon Meacham
... I am using the books that I did not read during last year's TBR Challenge for my first list.
1. Age of Innocence
2. On the Origin of Species
3. Alias Grace
4. Oliver Twist
5. The Old Man and the Sea (Read)
6. Invisible Man
7. Frankenstein (Read)
8. Dracula (Read)
9. Ge ...
... read several books concerning the subject, including the original. I've read parts of it but not the complete book.
1) On the Origin of Species , Charles Darwin
2) Charles Darwin: Voyaging, Janet Browne
3) Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, Janet Browne- Biography.
4) On ...
... just got up and left!
Suddenly, I just could not get into The Book Thief or Book of Lies by Brad Meltzer. I found Origin of Species by Nino Ricci utterly boring and am now going to switch genre and read Somebody a bio on Marlon Brando.
The only bright spark in my reading life is ...
I'd bring On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin because while it's one thing to accept or reject the theory of evolution by natural selection, it's quite another thing to (gradually) really understand it, with all its myriad implications. Once you do, it's exhillarating, joyous and ...
I am assuming you are talking about On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection ?
If so, as an evolutionary biologist, I find the first and final (6th) editions to be the most essential. The first for the fact that it was that version that revolutionized sciences and it is closer to ...
... don't appreciate as well as others, but what did the last sale of a first edition, first run, personally inscribed copy of On the Origin of Species come to?
... Blumenbach, On the Natural Varieties of Mankind (1776)
Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology (1830-33)
Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species (1859)
Sigmund Freud, On Dreams (1899)
Just missed the cut:
Nicholar Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (1543)
Adam ...
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574 Biology Cell Biology: Structure, Biochemistry and Function
575 Specific parts of & systems in plants The Origin of Species
932 Egypt to 640 Egyptology
A shelf of old books by Annie Fields
One of the best anecdotal books about collecting association copies of books (books formerly owned, annotated by, or associated with an author).
I have to agree the reading the The Origin of Species certainly counts as pleasure reading! It is very readable for a scientific text, and I have to say I kept catching my breath as he expresses for the first time ideas that now underly all biological thinking. There seem to be so many modern ...
... matter.
However the bible contains roughly 800k words, and works such as The Messiah get to cherry pick from that. On the Origin of Species is about 150k words. Perhaps if we selected carefully from the various works on evolution published since 1859 in order to bring the word count up ...
... Aurelius
On Nature by Lucretius
Theory of justice by John Rawls
Consilience by Edward O. Wilson
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Patterns of Culture by Ruth Benedict
The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
The American Dilemma by ...
... (Read)
10. Age of Innocence
11. The Complete Poems for Christopher Robin (Touchstone not right) (Read)
12. On the Origin of Species
A couple of these are rereads, but I read them many years ago in high school. That is why I bought them all these years later. A few books are ...
... beautifully written if only because Darwin tried to appeal to both his scientific audience and the lay public. I have read On the Origin of the Species By Means of Natural Selection (more recently the Folio Society editon) half a dozen times and still find it to be one of the best written ...
Truth be told, I listened to an audio version of Origin of Species myself. I don't remember who it was read by. I don't know if I would have had the patience to actually read it. But I have a high tolerance while stuck commuting.
As a student of ecology, I thought it would be a good thing to read Origin of Species ... but as a student don't really have the time; hence the audioversion of it. I'm looking forward to it... once I start!
... M. Burton
09. Hard Travelin': the hobo and his history - Kenneth Allsop
10. Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
11. Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
12. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
13. The Black Swan: the Impact of the Highly Improbable
- Nassim Nichol ...
... paper on evolution. Right, because I knew enough to write that paper. I didn't even know where to begin. I tried reading On the Origin of Species , but it's not exactly written at a high-school level.
Since then, I've taken classes in evolution, got a BS in biology, and have worked hard to ...
The God Delusion on the iPod
On the Origin of Species in email from DailyLit
Baseball Between the Numbers in the bathroom.
I haven't yet decided on my living room/bedroom book.
I read the first six chapters of the Origin of Species while traveling last Christmas, but I'm embarrassed to say that I've since procrastinated with this book and I ended up reading 20 other books from my bf's library. I'm back to reading my books now so I decided to finish The Origin of Specie ...
... of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
Thus spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin
... extra reading time that I'll have and so that I won't have to bring an entire suitcase of books. So far I've decided upon The Origin of Species (read the first half on my last vacation) and Underworld (read the first chapter, but stopped). Although, just looking at the bookshelf, I realized ...
... a Borders!) and came home with these:
The Slow Cooker Bible
The Stand
A Daughter's Daughter and Other Novels
The Origin of Species
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Arabian Nights
Anansi Boys
The Scarlet Letter
A Murder Is Announced
The A.B.C. Mu ...
Some of my recommendations struck me as being rather comical, i.e. the tag 'short stories' gave me Charles Darwin and The Origin of Species . On the whole a very interesting group of books with some I would definitely like to take a look at.
... Taylor Coleridge
Pride and Prejudice
The Red and the Black
The Scarlet Letter
The Voyage of the Beagle and The Origin of Species
Works by Edgar Allen Poe
Great Expectations and Hard Times
The Warden
Jayne Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Walden and Civil Disobedience
...
... forbidden to even think about getting another book I believe what you just said was to much; The voyage of the Beagle & The Origin of Species here I come!
Ooo I can hear the demanding knock of the baliffs at the door. Well..they can take anything, fridge, cooker, bed, toilet, bath, ...
... the Darwin books; The Voyage of the Beagle is the best read and was the seed from which grew his theory of Evolution. The Origin of Species is on every "Ten Books that Changed the World" list, and is probably Required Reading in these days of the debate over "Intelligent Design." Buy these- ...
... jargon, and remarkably concise and readable. The Voyage of the Beagle reads like a first rate travel narrative, and The Origin of Species is a marvel of clear expression. I am not scientific in my interests, but I consider these two books essential reading for any person who is ...
15. The Origin of Species , Charles Darwin
This is not the easiest book to read; it's much drier than the popular science books I usually read. But it was really interesting to go back and see the beginnings of evolutionary theory, and even though Darwin didn't live long enough to see new ...
... short, interesting read was Darwin and the Beagle.
The Voyage of the Beagle was at least more interesting than The origin of species .
... short, interesting read was Darwin and the Beagle.
The Voyage of the Beagle was at least more interesting than The origin of species .
... Bhagavad Gita
7. The Tale of Genji
8. Don Quixote
9. Candide
10. Tom Jones
11. Pride and Prejudice
12. The Origin of Species
13. Great Expectiations
14. Moby Dick
15. Middlemarch
16. War and Peace
17. Anna Kerenina
18. Huckleberry Finn
19. Ulysses
20. T ...
... is a compendium of works by Charles Darwin, edited by James D. Watson. It includes The Voyage of the Beagle, On the Origin of Species , The Descent of Man, and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.
... poisonwood bible - 3 lists
7) The diary of Anne Frank 3 lists
8) The Iliad 3 lists
9) War and Peace 3 lists
10) Origin of species 3 lists
11) The grapes of wrath - 2 lists
12) Nineteen eighty four 2 lists
13) Good omens 2 lists
14) Winnie the Pooh 2 lists
15) The ...
... I couldn't imagine any B&N would phase out the section that contains The Right Stuff, A Brief History of Time, On the Origin of Species and Richard Dawkins books.
...
14. Anna Karenina
15, War and Peace
16. A Wrinkle in Time
17. Macbeth
18. The Aeneid
19. The Republic
20. The Origin of Species
21. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
22. Les Misérables
23. The Oresteia
24. Flowers for Algernon
25. Flatland
... - 2 lists
Jane Eyre - 2 lists
The poisonwood bible - 2 lists
Catch 22 - 2 lists
Adding
The bible 2 lists
The origin of species - 2 lists
Kim (Kipling)
Joy in the morning (Wodehouse)
The tempest (Shakespeare)
The origin of species (Darwin)
The wasteland and other poems (T.S. Eliot)
Paradise lost (Milton)
Bleak House (Dickens)
Die Blechtrommel / The tin drum (Grass)
La vie, mode d'emploi / Life, a user's ...
I am a geneticist, and Darwin's The Origin of Species is still awe-inspiring, all these years later. Not many science books have that kind of staying power!
575 Specific parts of & systems in plants: The Origin of Species
401 Philosophy & theory: The Origin of Language: Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue
Some books have changed the world -- think Sir Isaac Newton's Principia and Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species , for example. Others change the views of some people living in the world -- think The Autobiography of Malcolm X or -haha- The Warren Commission Report.
>36 Nope! Not Origin of Species .
Charles Darwin, Origin of Species .
New one, kind of a gimme:
"Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith."
... that Literature can exist without a Dragon in it.
Beowulf: Proof that Literature can exist WITH a Dragon in it.
The Origin of Species : Proof that Dragons would have died out due to natural selection, even if they did exist.
... not, who knows what will pop up.
Here's the starting list, using those two books, and a couple that I added.
Darwin's On the Origin of Species
Newton's Principia Mathematica
The Bible (I'd nominate the Gutenberg version)
The Chilton repair manual for the 1972 Chevy Bel Air (without ...
Darwin's The Origin of Species , probably the most important book ever written. I started it once and got about half way through but I got distracted by some other book and didn't go back to it. I regret that.
... precursor to Guns, Germs, and Steel) last night so I can start on Foreigner today.
Poor Annotated Hobbit and On the Origin of Species keep getting put on the back burner.
... Nice introduction. Lots of teeny numbers.
That may be as far as I ever get with it, lol.
I am also going to re-read On the Origin of Species this year. It's been years since I read it, and I know and understand so much more now, that I suspect a re-read will be richly rewarding.
... :)
Oh, but if I read it, then I'm going to have to pick a new One Book, and it's going to be something harder, like Origin of Species or something. Hmm.
... at First Light by Ernest Hemingway
Schultz and Peanuts: A Biography by David Michaelis
Rose Madder by Stephen King
Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
... I bought 12 books including:
The Year's best Science Fiction
2001 Ed.
Wildmen, Wobblies & Whistle
Punks
The Illustrated Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (of course) Abridged & Introduced by Richard Leakey
Reader's Digest Atlas of the World Rand McNally (1987 Ed. ...
... to breed, etc. Now, I think this is simply inconsistent with what Darwin actually said. If you look at the quote from The Origin of Species in >21, any fair reading must clearly show that Darwin is not talking about the long run, and is not merely saying that in every species, ...
... doesn't care about east, west, north or south.
The theory of evolution offers no explanation for the origin of life. The Origin of Species talks about speciation . From what little I've seen, ID offers no real arguments against evolution (and in fact the more moderate proponents ...
... said, above, and based on your offered modifications, etc., it seems clear that at best Gould simply misspoke.) In The Origin of Species , Darwin wrote this:
A struggle for existence inevitably follows from the high rate at which all organic beings tend to increase. Every being
... Early Greek Science
QD Chemistry: Lavoisier in the Year One
QE Geology: Krakatoa
QH Natural History - Biology: The Origin of Species
SB Plant Culture: Tulipomania
TA Technology (General): The Ancient Engineers
TN Mining engineering. Metallurgy: Salt: A World History
TR ...
... Lavoisier in the Year One
551 Geology, hydrology, meteorology: Krakatoa
575 Physiological systems of plants: The Origin of Species
553 Economic History: Salt: A World History
620 Engineering & allied operations: The Ancient Engineers
635 Garden crops (Horticulture): Tulip ...
... Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track
QE--Geology: The Practical Paleontologist
QH--Natural history-biology: The Origin of Species
QL--Zoology: The Earth Moved
QP--Physiology: Monkeyluv
RA--Public aspects of medicine: The Food Bible
RC--Internal medicine: The Myth ...
... Geology (Discover Dorset)
560--Paleontology; Paleozoology: Practical Paleontologist
576--Genetics & evolution: The Origin of Species
591--Zoology: Animals in Translation
592--Invertebrates: The Earth Moved
597--Cold-blooded vertebrates, fishes: A Fish Caught in Time
598- ...
Well, I guess it's not a true break as I'm still reading On the Origin of Species and The Annotated Hobbit, but I'm not going to start anything new until I catch up on the Escape Pod podcasts.
Like goodgolly, we're reading The Hobbit and also On the Origin of Species . (Technically, I'm not a homeschooler, I just like to fill in the gaps I see in public education.)
206> When looking at The Origin of Species page though, it says 369 people have tagged it evolution, how strange. On a side note, when I searched for The Origin of Species it says the author is Origin of Species (which is combined with Charles Darwin, and links to Darwin in the end, but shouldn' ...
... way more than I thought I would.
Singularity - free audio book read by the author, which is enhancing the story for me
Origin of the Species - reading this in pieces via DailyLit.com
... The Calvin and Hobbes tenth anniversary book, War and peace, Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) by Walter Bosing, Origin of Specie s, Heart of Darkness and Slapstick or Lonesome no more are autobiographies. The Annotated Alice, Name of the Rose, Dracula and Frankenstein are ...
... The Calvin and Hobbes tenth anniversary book, War and peace, Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) by Walter Bosing, Origin of Species , Heart of Darkness and Slapstick or Lonesome no more are autobiographies. The Annotated Alice, Name of the Rose, Dracula and Frankenstein are ...
... suggestions. Here's a stab at listing what I want to plow through in the near future.
A Game of Thrones - now reading
On the Origin of Species - now reading
Singularity - now reading (listening, really)
The Annotated Hobbit - reading aloud with my son
coming up:
Travels of Marco Po ...
I'm reading On the Origin of Species via DailyLit .
I have actually read the origin of species , I thought it was quite readable.
I don't think I'll ever finish Gödel, Escher, Bach- all those exercises!
And about The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind - I'll make do with the synopsis in Up from Eden. Probably ...
... etc. put me right to sleep. For example, I had a class last year for which I had to read the Communist Manifesto, The Origin of Species , and something (I can't remember the title) about equality and freedom by Rousseau, and I could not finish a single one. This is totally unheard ...
... "survival of the fittest" -- a phrase coined by Herbert Spencer -- which Darwin finally put into the Fifth Edition of Origin of Species . Wallace regarded the phrase as superior to "natural selection" because it had less of a "teleological" connotation.
If you think he did ...
... I'd be glad for any advice as to how to get it cleaned up!
And telling me things like "The Warren Report and/or The Origin of the Species are incorrectly tagged as 'Fiction' and/or 'Non-fiction'" doesn't cut it.
Thanks! I'm about to do a 4-day drive to Delaware to start a new ...
Thanks, Krystolla! I'll have to check that one out.
My most recent bee-related reading has been On the Origin of Species , with its long section on how the shape of honeybees' cells might have developed.
... Almost Like a Whale (for some reason it comes up as Darwin's ghost : The origin of species updated) is a re-write of The Origin of Species , which uses modern day examples to illustrate the same points that Darwin was making.
It really does depend if you're after the philosophical ...
... find them heavy going at all. The Blind Watchmaker was specifically written as an introduction to evolution.
EDIT: The Origin of Species is surprisingly readable, too.
... with the exact same title and the exact same author cannot be distinguished by the system, or by the combiners. If your Lajien Synty is an abridged or significantly modified edition which does not belong with the full Finnish translation of Darwin's work, you must provide some indication of ...
... have Finnish translation of The illustrated Origin of species, but it has the same title in Finnish as the full version: Lajien synty . My book automatically combines to the full version.
I'm no less guilty of this than anyone, but I actually HAVE read A Brief History of Time, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, and On the Origin of Species . So much for bragging. I have Naturalist and Consilience by Edwar O. Wilson. And how about Betrayal of Science and Reason by Ehrlich and Ehrlich ...
I'm no less guilty of this than anyone, but I actually HAVE read A Brief History of Time, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, and On the Origin of Species . So much for bragging. I have Naturalist and Consilience by Edwar O. Wilson. And how about Betrayal of Science and Reason by Ehrlich and Ehrlich ...
... get a few more of Dawkins' works on it too. Maybe some of Stephen Jay Gould s too as a counterpoint. The original Origin of the Species is a must.
A brief history of Time and maybe some of the more recent follow-ups.
I'm not so hot on the more social science side so maybe ...
The Folio On the Origin of Species follows the text of the first edition (1859) with "some minor emendations". It also includes Darwin's introduction to the first edition, and a new introduction (2006) by Richard Keynes, whose great-uncle was Darwin's youngest son. There is also an interesting ...
... can that serve, meting out one value judgement after another? What about a popular work of science - say Darwin's On The Origin of Species - it may not even be literature, but it is a 'classic', and the nationality of the author is important in some way, but can/should one call him an 'Eng ...
I have never given more than a passing thought to tackling The Origin of Species , but I do remember as a teenager reading Darwin's Autobiography and thinking it was an absolute gem of a book. Highly recommended.
Mostly, I buy books and I read them. It's a time thing.
I tried to read On The Origins of Species twice, without success. It's hard to read all the old fashioned Victorian English.
... as well as important works in fiction and non-fiction. Bram Stoker's Dracula (which makes an appearance in the anime), Origin of Species , the Chronicles of Narnia, Lord of the Rings, just to name a few.
... his ideas did evolve (pardon the pun) to be incompatible with one of those choices
Okay, called out. I haven't read Origin of the Species in its entirety in a long time; it's entirely possible that I'm conflating what Darwin actually said/believed with the current state of evolutionary ...
... which one but it contained a very clear explanation of Darwin's theory. It sparked my interest in evolution. I read On The Origin of Species and Dawkins' The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker. It all made sense and the few doubts I had rapidly evaporated.
... You would have to be pretty dedicated to go through this, and then finish up with Penrose's bloody twistor theory.
The Origin of the Species and The Selfish Gene. Can't evolution be explained in a couple of paragraphs? Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond. Sorry, but anthropology ...
origin of species
David Copperfield
rjohara - ha ha. Sushi For Beginners is pretty good, as it goes. Give it a try. ;-)
(Yes, I've read Origin of Species too, and found it worthwhile. I don't own a copy because I read my parents' and I rarely bother buying stuff I can borrow from them...)
... Shale to smithereens.
Finally, another recommendation. Steve Jones' Almost a Whale is a fascinating re-write of Origin . (I second the Genome recommendation.)
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