Natural Selection, the natural law around evolving species and their variants, are profoundly and in depth explained by the great Charles Darwin, the first of the naturalists to back up the evolution theory with years of experience, experiments and evidence.
He carefully goes briefly on his foundings, while providing counter arguments against potential objections, even depicting that a massive controversity would follow after the release of his work. The diversity of life is detailed on vast amounts of aspects, going through various reasons as to why this intricate natural law is happening.
Next to that, other concepts such as the struggle for existence and survival of the fittest are told about in here, that all manifest into the evolution theory as we know it today. The environment plays a very important role wherever species are situated and however their behaviour changes over time. It takes a very long time as well for change to come towards these species, but it happens, gradually.
Domestication, heredity, geology and offsprings are other factors playing a part in the process of evolution. It varies on how this is all working, but it seems to be interconnected, as it is beautifully explained by "The Tree of Life" biology concept metaphorically, or as it is called in modern times, the Phylogenetic tree.
On top of this all, Darwin writes in such ways that it would be easy for me to know him as an intellectual scientist, knowing exactly what he is talking about. However, he does take his time in his book, explaining his foundations. Even though he stated to go over the subjects as brief as possible.
The information written inside seems to have become outdated, and I cannot point at the exact parts for this claim, but nevertheless, On the Origin of Species remained intriguing for me to read. Only a genius like him could come up with one of the most important books ever written.
Rating: ***(out of 4)
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