History: Theory of Evolution by Charles Darwin

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Charles Darwin’s theory and evolution
Introduction:
Charles Darwin was an English scientist who developed the theory of evolution which had been around for long period of time which gave him fame during his life and after his death. In 1859, he published a book called Origin of Species which contains all the theory of evolution. Darwin’s theory caused a lot of argument and they are still continuing until these days. In religion view it caused clash because at that time people in Europe believed that God had created the whole world in 7 days according to the Bible.
Charles Darwin was born in England in 1809, in a wealthy family that consists of six siblings, financier and doctors. In 1818, he was sent to Anglican Shrewsbury School as boarder; he also worked in the university hospital of Edinburgh as apprentice doctor for a year. He joined the group of natural history as student in the Plinian Society which involved in deliberations of radical materialism. Darwin involved in the marine invertebrates life cycle and anatomy research which was taken by a scientist known as Robert Edmund Grant. Moreover, his insatiable concern in natural history infuriated his father and in 1828, his father sent him to Christ’s College at Cambridge to become a person but he did not qualify except in an ordinary course. At that time he had a great influence on his cousin William Duncan Fox and took up a collection of beetles. He did well in the ordinary courses and he ranked tenth in his class which was in 1831.

What is meant by evaluation? Evaluation means generating of diversity of life forms on the surface of the Earth. There are several theories but the main one was suggested by Charles Darwin in 1859. He published his book by the name of Origin o...

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...ts of extreme of population for the trait and it often happens when consistent change occurs in the environment. Example the weather becomes colder.
Disruptive selection: Disruptive selection is a mid-group which is selected against: the traits are allowed to predominate and grow compared to the middle. Example: the finches that found in the Island of Galapagos had shown variation during the period of drought. During the drought birds loss their feeding mode and it changed back when the rain came.

Stabilizing selection: the extremes are selected against; the centre stays the same and grows in number. Example: child birth weight showing in the diagram. Human babies have an optimal size because of birth – induced stress on the mother and child.

Works Cited

ttp://darwin200.christs.cam.ac.uk/pages

http://www.livescience.com/474-controversy-evolution-works.html

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