Can you name the 300 most frequently used words in Charles Darwin's 'On The Origin of Species'? by MrChewypoo

Can you name the 300 most frequently used words in Charles Darwin's 'On The Origin of Species'?

created by MrChewypoo

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This is from the First Edition text, 150,000 words (7,500 unique). Note that plurals and tenses are counted separately (monkey is different from monkeys and The Monkees).
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Frequency	Word
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7822
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Frequency	Word
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Frequency	Word
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Frequency	Word
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Top 300 Words in Darwin's 'On The Origin Of Species' Quiz

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Created Dec 12, 2011 in Science
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	sufradley:	Dec 12th, 2011 at 16:32 GMT	11 points
	A fantastic choice of text - Thank you. Finches don't appear to feature as much as I've been lead to believe!

	FelixtheBear:	Dec 13th, 2011 at 00:12 GMT	6 points
	@sufradley I thought for sure beaks would be up there! Also, I may be the only who does this, but I can't help look through the answers for strings of words that form phrases. The best I could find here are "then both inhabitants produced islands" and "look out, reason class!" (punctuation mine).

	MrChewypoo:	Dec 13th, 2011 at 02:30 GMT	7 points
	Actually very interesting points. Beak: 21 Beaks: 10 Finch: 1 Finches: 2 Monkey: 3 God: 1 DNA: 0 Evolved: 1 Evolution: 0 (I guess he didn't coin the term?) Such a wonderful read. Do youself a favour if you haven't already. And thanks for playing!

	dan144556:	Dec 13th, 2011 at 02:44 GMT	8 points
	From the Online Etymology Dictionary: "Modern use [of the term evolution] in biology, of species, first attested 1832 by Scottish geologist Charles Lyell. Charles Darwin used the word only once, in the closing paragraph of 'The Origin of Species' (1859), and preferred 'descent with modification' in part because 'evolution'...carried a sense of "progress" not found in Darwin's idea." Accordingly, both "descent" and "modification" are on this list.

	Manticore:	Dec 17th, 2011 at 16:00 GMT	17 points
	I'm tempted to make a similar quiz and see which prevails.

	MrChewypoo:	Dec 17th, 2011 at 22:29 GMT	3 points
	@Manticore: And the Comment Of The Year Award goes to...

	Antithesys:	Dec 19th, 2011 at 05:39 GMT	11 points
	I refuse to believe this quiz simply emerged purely by chance. It could only have been designed by an intelligence.

	gracie:	Dec 21st, 2011 at 07:36 GMT	4 points
	well it didn't just emerge by CHANCE, it had the strong characteristics necessary to survive and flourish in the brutal world of sporcle.

	_Check_Mate_:	Jan 10th, 2012 at 22:57 GMT	2 points
	For those not inclined to read "On the Origin of Species" may I suggest "The Kiwi's Egg" by David Quammen; a more modern, reader friendly book on Darwin and his theories. Great Quiz by the way.