On the Origin of Species: Deep Review

Original academic guide to On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin.

• Great Books & Ideas
• 31 min
• Ages 15–99
• 10 chapters

About this audiobook

Darwin's sustained argument for descent with modification through natural selection, built from variation, ecology, breeding, geology, biogeography, classification, and difficult objections.

Why it's worth a listen

Follow the architecture of Darwin's evidence and argument while distinguishing the 1859 book from later genetics, modern evolutionary theory, and social distortions made in its name.

Based on the book by Charles Darwin, published by Emma's Library

Chapters

1. The Problem This Book Is Trying To Solve
2. The Analogy of Domestic Breeding
3. Variation in Nature and the Struggle for Existence
4. Natural Selection and the Principle of Divergence
5. Anticipating the Critics: Darwin's Chapters on Objection
6. Deep Time and the Imperfect Geological Record
7. Geographical Distribution and the Map of Life
8. Classification, Embryology, and Vestigial Organs
9. What Darwin Didn't Know: The Missing Mechanism of Genetics
10. The Shadow of Social Distortion and How to Read the Origin Today