question: What element of On the Origin of Species ensured that the book would be taken seriously by scientists ?
answer: its dryness ensured that it was seen as aimed at specialist scientists and could not be dismissed as mere journalism or imaginative fiction .
turker_answer: The dryness of `` On the Origin of Species '' ensure that the book would be taken seriously by scientists .
rule-based: Its dryness ensured that it was seen as aimed at specialist scientists and could not be dismissed as mere journalism or imaginative fiction ensured that the book would be taken seriously by scientists .