since no one was able to answer my question about god and darwin.. does any of you know where he got his theory and how he got it?
2006-11-22 14:01:21 · 9 answers · asked by DW 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
in his travels to the Galapagos on the Beagle, he noticed the diversity of species and how they adapted to their environment
2006-11-22 14:02:41 · answer #1 · answered by ♪ ♫ ☮ NYbron ☮ ♪ ♫ 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is no one place that Darwin "got" his theory and certainly no one "how". The galapagos were a big part of it, Darwin collected and observed species of birds from different islands of the galapagos. These birds had been seperated into different populations and thus were allowed to take seperate evolutionary paths. I would suggest watching some of the documentary produced by NOVA called EVOLUTION. The first two one-hour episodes are called "Darwins Dangerous Idea" and deal with Darwin formulating his theory.
2006-11-22 15:02:17 · answer #2 · answered by cdndave 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Like any other scientist, he built on the ideas of others (perhaps most notedly, his grandfather, Erasmus Darwin). Perhaps the single biggest contribution was serendipity. He collected a variety of birds on the Galapagos Islands but misidentified them. An ornithological anatomist explained that they were all finches. Darwin realized that once some finches arrived at the romote islands, possibly driven by a storm, then adapted to fill all niches that could be occupied by flighted birds. This experience let him synthesize the ideas of others (including Wallace) into "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life".
2006-11-22 16:50:45 · answer #3 · answered by novangelis 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Read " The Origin of Species " and ignore idiots, such as emerald 1228.
2006-11-22 14:19:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
he travelled all over the worldstudying rocks and fossils for more than 6 years. he collected lots of info and after carefully analyzing all that he had he came up with his theories.
2006-11-22 14:19:53 · answer #5 · answered by nexus 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lot of websites have full text of his book 'Origin of Species.' It will explain how he got it.
2006-11-22 14:47:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many other thereos influenced his idea...and he had lots of observations
2006-11-22 17:22:35 · answer #7 · answered by navratna s 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He stole it from Alfred Wallace and published it as if it was his, guess there was no copyright infringment back then...
2006-11-22 14:05:21 · answer #8 · answered by emerald_1228 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Doing lots of drugs!!!!!!
2006-11-22 14:05:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋