wedrifid comments on For progress to be by accumulation and not by random walk, read great books - Less Wrong
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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.
One book in a discipline?