• inception of Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection in 1838, the development of Darwin's theory to explain the "mystery of mysteries" of how new species...
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    concepts which predated Darwin's theories. English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley coined the term Darwinism in April 1860. Darwinism subsequently referred...
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  • inception of Darwin's theory occurred during an intensively busy period which began when Charles Darwin returned from the survey voyage of the Beagle...
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    Islands. The term "Darwin's finches" was first applied by Percy Lowe in 1936, and popularised in 1947 by David Lack in his book Darwin's Finches. Lack based...
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    Neo-Darwinism is generally used to describe any integration of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection with Gregor Mendel's theory of genetics...
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    mechanism of evolution. Darwin's scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences, explaining the diversity of life. Darwin was born in...
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    of Darwin's theory brought into the open Charles Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection, the culmination of more than twenty years of...
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    November 1859. Darwin's book introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection...
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    Struggle for existence (category Charles Darwin)
    or eliminated." Darwin 1859, p. 62 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFDarwin1859 (help) Ospovat, Dov. The Development of Darwin's Theory: Natural History...
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    Pangenesis (category Obsolete biology theories)
    Darwin's half-cousin Francis Galton conducted wide-ranging inquiries into heredity which led him to refute Charles Darwin's hypothetical theory of pangenesis...
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    The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals is Charles Darwin's third major work of evolutionary theory, following On the Origin of Species (1859)...
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    popularisation of Darwin's theory and forms of social Darwinism, they maintain that social Darwinism is not a necessary consequence of the principles of biological...
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    Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace published a new evolutionary theory, explained in detail in Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859). Darwin's theory...
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  • with Charles Darwin's concepts. While often seen as rejecting Darwin's theory of branching evolution for a more linear Lamarckian view of progressive evolution...
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  • of species and transformism are 18th and early 19th-century ideas about the change of one species into another that preceded Charles Darwin's theory of...
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  • computer science, and physics. At the most fundamental level, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution states that organisms evolve and adapt to their environment...
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    the creation history as an allegory (instead of historical) long before the development of Darwin's theory of evolution. For example, Philo, whose works...
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    Richard Owen (category Alumni of the University of Edinburgh)
    Reptile"). An outspoken critic of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, Owen agreed with Darwin that evolution occurred but thought...
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  • childhood, adulthood and old age. Darwin's life (1809–1882) spanned the development of photography, and early portraits of Darwin are drawn or painted, while...
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    of this, a crossing of a red flower variety with a white variety of the same species would yield pink-flowered offspring. Charles Darwin's theory of inheritance...
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    humans. Darwin explained sexual selection as a combination of "female choosiness" and "direct competition between males". Darwin's theories of evolution...
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  • questions, except for Darwin's group selection the theories reviewed above did not advance a precise understanding of how Darwin's mechanism extended and...
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    1997; Pages 143–144 AboutDarwin.com — Darwin's Timeline Pioneers of Psychology Evolution Quotations compiled by GIGA Darwin's Untimely Burial by Stephen...
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    development of Darwin's theory. In particular he had been impressed by fossils he had collected in South America during the voyage of the Beagle of giant...
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  • Neoevolutionism (category Sociocultural evolution theory)
    social theory attempts to explain the evolution of societies by drawing on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution while discarding some dogmas of the previous...
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    perception of Darwin, his "monkey theory" and apes in 19th-century England. The caricatures provide not only insights into the public perception of Darwin's evolutionary...
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    reproduction. The concept of natural selection originally developed in the absence of a valid theory of heredity; at the time of Darwin's writing, science had...
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    Gower Street, London (category Streets in the London Borough of Camden)
    December, and with Emma moved in on the day of their marriage, 29 January 1839. The development of Darwin's theory of natural selection made progress in this...
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    increasingly wide acceptance of Darwin's concepts of evolution at the expense of alternative theories. Thomas Henry Huxley applied Darwin's ideas to humans, using...
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  • Queen Victoria in 1840, the search for the source of the Nile and the development of Darwin's theory of Evolution. A time-traveller from the distant future...
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