Hazel (my girlfriend's version)’s Reviews > On the Origin of Species > Status Update

“ after a period of from 740 to 750 years there would be nearly nineteen million elephants alive, descended from the first pair”

I wish

“But Natural Selection, as we shall hereafter see, is a power incessantly ready for action, and is as immeasurably superior to man's feeble efforts, as the works of Nature are to those of Art.”

That chapter was a teeny bit repetitive

“ why a peculiarity is often transmitted from one sex to both sexes, or to one sex alone, more commonly but not exclusively to the like sex”

The way I immediately thought of sex-linked chicken breeds

“Animal and vegetable kingdoms”

What about the poor fruit 🥺

Yes, I am starting another book. Yes, I am already reading 3 other books. Nope, I am totally not even slightly stressed because of how much I do in the day