In case you have students who believe that rewriting is something only done in school, show them this interactive display of Darwin's 6 revisions of On the Origin of Species -- you can play it like a movie (I recommend the Fast setting) to watch the work 'evolve,' and even hover over specific segments to read the actual text of the book itself.
And speaking of counterclaims -- there's a great surprise -- as an entire chapter (in red) appears suddenly in the 6th version -- it is Darwin directly addressing counter arguments that have been made against natural selection.
The title is a nice pun, too, on the full title of Darwin's work: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
Click on the image below or go to http://benfry.com/traces/ (does not work well in Chrome - use Firefox or Safari)
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