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description. Now let's read and relax.

Find a comfortable spot.

Adjust your volume.

Take a nice deep breath in.

Let it out slowly and off we go.

Tonight we're returning to one of the foundational classics of modern science,

on the origin of species by means of natural selection,

or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life.

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