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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 let's continue an annual February tradition on this podcast and relax with more from on the origin of

species by means of natural selection or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life.

But Charles Darwin, MA, fellow of the Royal Geological, L'an, etc. societies, and author of Journal of Researches during

H.M. S. Beagles Voyage Round the World, from the first edition published in 1859 by John

Murray, Abomarle Street, London. Let's pick up right where we left off near the end of Chapter 3, the

struggle for existence. Let's begin. In the case of every species, many different checks, acting at

different periods of life and during different seasons or years probably come into play.

Some one check or some few being generally the most potent, but all concurring in determining the average number, or even

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