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

“Slow though the process of selection may be, if feeble man can do much by his powers of artificial selection, I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and infinite complexity of the coadaptations between all organic beings, one with another and with their physical conditions of life, which may be effected in the long course of time by nature's power of selection.”

If I have 500 pages left and can read 20 pages a day then this will take me 25 days to finish, so I should be finished by the end of the month (hypothetically)

“ 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