The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: or, The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life Audiobook (Free)

The Origin of Species sold out over the first time of its publication in 1859. It’s the main book of the nineteenth century and perhaps one of the most readable and accessible of the great revolutionary works of the medical imagination. Though, in fact, little read, most people know what it says-at least they think they do.

The Origin of Types was the first mature and persuasive work to explain how species change through the process of natural selection. Upon its publication, the publication started to transform attitudes about society and religion and was quickly used to justify the philosophies of communists, socialists, capitalists, as well as Germany’s Country wide Socialists. However the most quoted response came from Thomas Henry Huxley, Darwin’s friend and also a renowned naturalist, who exclaimed, “How extremely stupid not to have considered that!”