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The book is a good introduction to Darwin's book on his new (at the time) theory of evolution, and excerpts the important parts.

In which I first noticed Darwin's complaints about the Ichneumon flies laying eggs inside wasps, a hugely icky factor that contributed to his eventual loss of faith in the Christian benevolent God (which is not actually a theologically sound position, but that's a different subject).

https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-2814.xml ( )

The best science book ever written. It is amazingly easy reading - very compelling and still fascinating. Darwin put forth a powerful case even without knowing about genes etc. Before you listen to the knuckleheads out there who want to denigrate Darwin and evolution, read this book first (and maybe follow with something a bit more modern, such as Carl Zimmer: Evolution - the triumph of an idea). ( )

Scientist Charles Darwin once asserted that "a scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections -- a mere heart of stone." Indeed, his objective take on evolution asserted in The Origin of Species shook the foundations of traditional religion to its core.