On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

Darwin's On the Origin of Species, whose first chapter is "Variation under Domestication" and second "Variation under Nature". Both papers frame their central claim with this order: agent lineages are still in the first chapter and approaching the second, the Darwinization of the datasphere. The companion also uses Darwin's unconscious selection to describe how users' attachment kept GPT-4o in service.

Cited in

both papers (Flagship: Introduction; Companion §1, §3)

Used for

Central claim (domestication to nature); persuading (§3)

Strand

Evolution & heredity · Evolutionary theory & Darwinian populations

Cite

@book{darwin1859origin,
  title = {On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life},
  author = {Charles Darwin},
  year = {1859},
  publisher = {John Murray (London)},
}