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On the Origin of Species: Natural Selection

Charles Darwin · 1859

"Complex life needs no designer — small heritable advantages, repeated over enormous time, are enough to build every organism on Earth."

The idea

Darwin's whole argument fits in one sentence: organisms that reproduce better, reproduce more. Run that filter for a few hundred million generations and you get eyes, wings, and brains — no blueprint required.

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