EVOLUTION
HISTORICAL CONTEXT FOR EVOLUTIONARY THEORY
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Inheritance of Acquired Traits
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Human Evolution
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life
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My Voyage on the Beagle
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Detailed explanation-1: -Darwin, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (John Murray, London, 1859). The study of Darwin, his work and his influence did not, of course, start in 1959.
Detailed explanation-2: -Darwin proposed that species can change over time, that new species come from pre-existing species, and that all species share a common ancestor. In this model, each species has its own unique set of heritable (genetic) differences from the common ancestor, which have accumulated gradually over very long time periods.
Detailed explanation-3: -English naturalist Charles Darwin developed the idea of natural selection after a five-year voyage to study plants, animals, and fossils in South America and on islands in the Pacific. In 1859, he brought the idea of natural selection to the attention of the world in his best-selling book, On the Origin of Species.
Detailed explanation-4: -Darwin’s first two, relatively complete, explicit articulations of his theorizing on evolution were his Essay of 1844 and On the Origin of Species published in 1859.