wedrifid comments on For progress to be by accumulation and not by random walk, read great books - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MichaelVassar 03 March 2010 06:18:33AM *  6 points [-]

I don't just mean punctuated equilibrium.
Darwin wrote more than Origin and did talk about sexual selection.

I agree that an interested amateur should read the modern textbook over Origin. It's not THAT good. If you can only read one book in a discipline it should pretty much always be a textbook unless the discipline is totally dysfunctional.

Comment author: wedrifid 03 March 2010 06:20:25AM 1 point [-]

One book in a discipline?