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On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
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"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change."
– Charles Darwin
Darwin’s greatest single influence was Adam Smith. Smith believes in the ‘invisible hand’ of the market. He says it
Juan José Millás • Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal
From September 1854 I devoted my whole time to arranging my huge pile of notes, to observing, and to experimenting in relation to the transmutation of species. During the voyage of the "Beagle" I had been deeply impressed by discovering in the Pampean formation great fossil animals covered with armour like that on the existing armadillos;
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Peter Kropotkin spend 5 years observing animals in the wilds of Siberia, and having read Darwin, sought to replicate his opersations of the competitive struggle of species in the wild.