I attribute evolution to Natural Selection of favorable variations.
Charles Darwin wrote "Origin of Species" ("On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life"). This book took previous thoughts on evolution, including those advanced by his grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, and put the ideas together in a stunning statement that put the variation of life in context.
Animal breeders long knew how to breed for favorable traits (artificial selection). Darwin explained that nature, in an undirected manner, would tend to select for those lines that had a subtle advantage over longer spans of time.
2006-11-14 01:06:40
·
answer #1
·
answered by novangelis 7
·
0⤊
0⤋
First of all-there's a HUGE false impression right here in one of the crucial different solutions. WE DID NOT EVOLVE FROM APES! WE SHARE A COMMON ANCESTOR WITH THE GREAT APES. Proof is the ninety-some thing same DNA we proportion with chimpanzees. That is why there are nonetheless apes... Look-there may be adequate fossil proof that we advanced. People simply do not desire to take delivery of it on the grounds that to confess that we're advanced animals is underneath them. We desire to think exact-and it is psychologically painful to take delivery of that we weren't simply plopped down at the Earth by means of a few divine hand... Also-I believe there may be an drawback with the phrase idea. Does any individual discover precisely what a idea is? It's no longer "only a idea". A speculation is confirmed time and again by means of many humans earlier than it turns into an accredited idea. However, medical developments are continually "evolving" on the grounds that existence is continually replacing...consequently, the extra we be taught, the extra we regulate our earlier ideals... (recall the flat Earth idea??? WRONG!) So some distance, no person has arise with a larger rationalization however we have now a mountain of proof that species adapt and difference over the years... and our concept of time-our lifespan isn't lengthy adequate. These matters take hundreds of thousands of years... so, sure, I suppose we advanced. There is not any different larger rationalization...except you suppose a publication written by means of different individuals that lived 1000's of years in the past-that had no concept approximately the relaxation of global or a lot clue approximately physics, biology and so forth... P.S. To Fred the Dog.... Have that health care provider end up the existance of God in some way that everybody can have an understanding of-no longer utilizing the bible or "supernatural" approach-on the grounds that there is not any proof that you'll end up both exists or is at paintings within the universe. Explain away the fossil proof... Where are the bones and evidence of Jesus? You can suppose that he was once "assumed into heaven" however you cannot fathom that we advanced????? Explain a virgin start-wherein is the proof? We have fossil proof of the whole thing technological know-how holds as actual approximately existence... now, give an explanation for a lot of these matters... with out utilizing the bible and with out depending at the supernatural... or simply "God". It's strong to me how humans can droop good judgment....or reject proof that they are able to evidently see for themselves... I'll in no way put out of your mind a fundamentalist internet site that learn in large daring black textual content... "OTHER GALAXIES DO NOT EXIST" And there was once a photograph of Andromeda.... Ignorant to the truth that we are not able to take a snapshot of the Milky Way... it was once hilarious and appalling that humans truthfully believed the slender minded rhetoric.... *Sigh*
2016-09-01 12:16:34
·
answer #2
·
answered by ? 4
·
0⤊
0⤋
His was the most prominent book, "the Origin of Species". The controversy probably helped to make it more well known (there is no such thing as bad publicity). He also summarised well and gave hard reportable evidence using many examples, mainly from the Galapagos Islands. One of his contemporaries, A.R. Wallace, came up with the same theories, but was not as prominent.
2006-11-13 22:56:42
·
answer #3
·
answered by Labsci 7
·
1⤊
0⤋
He started it.
Before Charles Darwin came along we were all identical tiny micro organisms.
2006-11-13 22:48:32
·
answer #4
·
answered by Vage Centurian 3
·
0⤊
0⤋
He coined the term in his Origin of Species. Up until that point, people didn't realize how life came to be. It was really a revolutionary idea for the time. It changed the whole face of biology.
2006-11-13 22:52:09
·
answer #5
·
answered by nondescript 7
·
0⤊
0⤋
He managed to publish the idea before Wallace did. However, other people were coming to the same idea at the same time. You get credit for it if you publish it first.
2006-11-13 23:05:51
·
answer #6
·
answered by eri 7
·
0⤊
0⤋
It was his theory... Hello
2006-11-14 01:27:12
·
answer #7
·
answered by Mike 4
·
0⤊
0⤋