Dr. Jim reads Chapter 8, Part 1 of Darwin's Origin of Species.


Darwin's Chapter 8, Instincts, Part 1


"No instinct can be produced through natural selection except by the slow and gradual accumulation of numerous slight, yet profitable, variations." (Darwin, Illustrated Origin of Species, Leakey (ed.), p. 131).

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