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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" > <channel> <title>RSS Theory of Evolution</title> <link>https://evolutiontheory.net/</link> <description>Theory of Evolution</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2025 08:08:20 -0500</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>daily</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item> <title>Charles Darwin Research Institute</title> <description>New York, NY, August 22, 2006 &#65533; The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today blasted a television documentary produced by Christian broadcaster Dr. D. James Kennedy's Coral Ridge Ministries that attempts to link Charles Darwin's ...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/about_me_as_her_world_turns.jpg" alt="At the Charles Darwin" align="left" /><p>Naturalist Charles Darwin, one of the people who put the Great into Great Britain, famously sailed around the world on the Royal Navy ship HMS Beagle in the 1830s. He came up with his Theory of Evolution after visiting the Galapagos Islands, now a part of Ecuador, in 1835. It was the behaviour of the islands' finches that helped him to discover evolution. Now Beagle is to sail again, after the Beagle Trust said it will build a 5 million replica of the ship.. Darwin's Beagle to sail again: 5m replica will survey oceans with help from NASA craft By Mark Prigg 11th November 2008 Daily Mail It was the ship that carried Charles Darwin to the Galapagos Islands nearly 180 years ago, enabling him to make his breakthrough on the theory of evolution. Now another HMS Beagle will depart on a new voyage of scientific discovery - this time with the help of sat-nav, engines and guidance from space. The Beagle Trust plans to build a 5 million replica of the 19th-century vessel and use it to research the effects of plankton on the world's oceans. Vessel of knowledge: The original HMS Beagle on which Charles Darwin sailed. A replica is being built to research the effects of plankton on the world's oceans It will be guided to algae blooms across the globe with the help of Nasa astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The charity has finalised its plans and is currently raising funds for its project, scheduled to begin construction within months. 'We are making a lot of progress, and I'm confident we will begin building next year, then set sail in 2010, ' said project director Peter McGrath. The original HMS Beagle took scientist and naturalist Darwin around the world between 1831 and 1836. Scientist and naturalist: Charles Darwin in 1842 (aged 33) The voyage gave him the key evidence he needed to develop his theory of evolution by natural selection. The new vessel will be built in Milford Haven in Wales. She will be identical to Darwin's on the outside - but will contain radar, GPS, two auxiliary diesel engines and lab equipment. 'The only noticable difference from the outside will be a GPS on the mast, ' said Mr McGrath. 'However, inside it will be very modern, as obviously we need the latest scientific equipment, and to travel in comfort.' The Beagle will initially follow the path of Darwin's expedition, crossing the North and South Atlantic, the Pacific and Indian Oceans, round both Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope. It will then begin following large algae blooms, guided by astronauts. Mr McGrath said: 'We were stunned, as Nasa actually came to us and offered to help. 'They will be using their cameras and astronauts on the ISS to spot these blooms, then guiding us towards them. 'We know very little about how these massive areas of algae on the surface interact with the ocean, so we believe we will uncover a lot of firsts.' Astronaut Michael Barratt will lead the project for Nasa. He said: 'Space stations, square riggers and marine biology: science does not get more exciting than this.'</p>]]></content:encoded> <category><![CDATA[Theory Of Evolution]]></category> <link>https://evolutiontheory.net/TheoryOfEvolution/charles-darwin-research-institute</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://evolutiontheory.net/TheoryOfEvolution/charles-darwin-research-institute</guid> <pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2025 18:08:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Charles Darwin high school London</title> <description>Charles Darwin School is the only secondary school in the Biggin Hill area. The school consists of 1, 320 secondary and sixth form students. Currently the head teacher is Mr Sunil Chotai. The school has recently received 'Good ...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/d_link_charles_darwin_school.jpg" alt="At Charles Darwin School" align="left" /><p>Charles Darwin School is the only secondary school in the Biggin Hill area. The school consists of 1, 320 secondary and sixth form students. Currently the head teacher is Mr Sunil Chotai. The school has recently received 'Good' in an October 2013 OfSTED inspection. GCSE results have demonstrated continued year-on-year improvement to 69.4% A*-C including English and maths, with 90% 5 GCSE good grades. At A-level 82% of 6th formers gained A-C grades. The school is London's most Southerly school and has a catchment including schools from Bromley, Croydon, Kent and Surrey...</p>]]></content:encoded> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <link>https://evolutiontheory.net/Biography/charles-darwin-high-school-london</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://evolutiontheory.net/Biography/charles-darwin-high-school-london</guid> <pubDate>Sun, 22 Dec 2024 18:07:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Charles Darwin determinism</title> <description>The conference season is over and I’m guessing we’ve all had enough of politics for now. I know I have … at least until the Sunday papers are out. Instead of politics, I thought I would for a change regale you with another ...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/charles_darwin_neanderthal.jpg" alt="Know that Charles Darwin's" align="left" /><p>The conference season is over and I’m guessing we’ve all had enough of politics for now. I know I have … at least until the Sunday papers are out. Instead of politics, I thought I would for a change regale you with another of my favourite subjects — immortality. I knew you’d be pleased. It does affect you, you know. Yes, you. On the 22nd of May, 2005, The Observer newspaper published an article by Ian Pearson, Head of the Futurology Unit at BT (British Telecom). It was titled: “2050 – and immortality is within our grasp.” The indefatigable Pearson wrote, “If you draw the timelines, realistically by 2050 we would expect to be able to download your mind into a machine, so when you die it’s not a major career problem. … If you’re rich enough then by 2050 it’s feasible. you’re poor you’ll probably have to wait until 2075 or 2080 when it’s routine. We are very serious about it. That’s how fast this technology is moving: 45 years is a hell of a long time in IT.” But is downloading the contents of your brain to a computer, immortality? An alternative approach is to fix our bodies so that we live to 200. Strictly speaking that’s not immortality either, just a very long innings. Even so, some people would settle for it, despite the tedium of an almost endless dotage. Other commentators believe we will become posthumans if we simply live long enough to understand all things. George Bernard Shaw wanted to exist for 300 years, convinced he would know everything by then. Many agree with him, even though it seems more like a fear of death than a step in the right direction. In the end he lived to a ripe 94, quite long enough for most people. Interestingly, our psychology changes as we get older. The Swiss thinker and psychiatrist C.G. Jung realized that our deep mind prepares us for physical death with intimations of immortality. It acts as if we were going to live forever. So what is immortality if not bodily survival? The gnostic Gospel of Thomas is quite clear: “Whoever discovers the interpretation of these sayings will not taste death. Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. The kingdom is within you and it is outside you. Know what is in front of your face, and what is hidden from you will be disclosed to you.”</p>]]></content:encoded> <category><![CDATA[Facts And Quotes]]></category> <link>https://evolutiontheory.net/FactsAndQuotes/charles-darwin-determinism</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://evolutiontheory.net/FactsAndQuotes/charles-darwin-determinism</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2024 18:03:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>La familia Charles Darwin</title> <description>Today people around the world celebrates the . To me this day is special and I celebrate the life and work of this great man by sharing with you the WHY he is history’s most important thinker . Throughout his life, Darwin’s ...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/homnidos_y_homnidas_la_familia_presumida.jpg" alt="De Charles Darwin" align="left" /><p>Today people around the world celebrates the . To me this day is special and I celebrate the life and work of this great man by sharing with you the WHY he is history’s most important thinker . Throughout his life, Darwin’s work resulted in the most enormous benefits that scientific knowledge, acquired through human curiosity and ingenuity, ever contributed to the advancement of humanity. . He was The general idea of evolution preceded Darwin , and he shied away from making the explicit and incendiary claim that even humans were evolved from other creatures. But his explanation of natural selection as a mechanism that made evolution plausibly able to explain the origin of species without reference to a creator up-ended the contemporary orthodoxy. It set a new course that no subsequent scientific work could ignore. And according to the eminent late evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, ; it gave rise to positivism; it produced a powerful intellectual and spiritual revolution , the effects of which have lasted to this day.” Related Soy un defensor de la libertad individual, el libre mercado racional y la bsqueda de crear un estado de derecho en el que todos podamos desarrollarnos en igualdad, paz, fraternidad y comunidad. Creo que el trabajo duro en equipo, la autoestima y el amor por nuestra familia son la energa primaria para la generacin de riqueza en nuestras comunidades. Busco la la objetividad y la razn en la epistemologa y considero que el valor supremo por el que se deben medir los juicios de valor ticos es el valor de la vida humana. Considero la vida el ms alto valor; pero no cualquier tipo de vida, sino la vida que se vive buscando la felicidad en ausencia de coercin o privilegios. Creo que no hay humanos, razas, culturas o pensamientos mejores o superiores. Sin embargo, s creo que hay argumentos errneos e irracionales que deben ser combatidos en el campo de las ideas. As, tambin creo que ensear y practicar una vida sin argumentos msticos y contradicciones filosficas es una herramienta imprescindible para demostrar que la bsqueda de la felicidad s es posible y no es una utopa. Creo que los fundamentos del capitalismo laissez-faire proveen de las herramientas necesarias para crear un mejor futuro. Pero tambin acepto que los privilegios heredados y existentes, las injusticias cometidas en el pasado, las guerras y la actual moral contradictoria e irracional de las elites son el principal enemigo para que este sistema funcione. Por eso, considero que es necesario y FUNDAMENTAL estudiar la historia de manera objetiva, global, consistente y que luego, se realicen las reparaciones necesarias y posibles con aquellas naciones, pueblos, grupos y personas que han sido afectados. Creo que solo empezando con una consciencia limpia se puede empezar a construir un futuro limpio. Finalmente, creo que solo cuando logremos hacer una revolucin moral que nos ensee las herramientas para buscar la felicidad podremos vivir en paz respetando los principios ticos y jurdicos, la libre autodeterminacin de los pueblos, la verdad y la justicia, y la tolerancia cultural de un planeta con infinitas y variadas costumbres y tradiciones. Por lo tanto defiendo que: El hombre es un fin en s mismo y que la realidad es una verdad absoluta compuesta por hechos independientes de los sentimientos humanos. Creo en la razn como el medio ms importante para percibir la realidad y adems creo en la razn como la fuente ms valiosa del conocimiento y gua de accin para la bsqueda de la felicidad individual, de nuestras familias, de nuestras comunidades y de toda la especie humana. Creo fehacientemente en que el hombre es un fin en s mismo y no el medio para los fines de otros. Rechazo el sacrificio de uno o de un grupo para el beneficio de otro u otros grupos. Pero afirmo la responsabilidad y necesidad de reparar y reivindicar los crmenes cometidos por la humanidad a lo largo de la historia. Me propongo buscar mi satisfaccion racional y busco alcanzar la felicidad como el valor moral ms alto de mi vida. No simpatizo con los defensores del colectivismo, del altruismo irracional y de los polilogismos de raza, clase, status o cultura. Tampoco simpatizo con los defensores del gobierno benefactor que buscando polticas altruistas o colectivistas est dispuesto a sacrificar...</p>]]></content:encoded> <category><![CDATA[Books And Movies]]></category> <link>https://evolutiontheory.net/BooksAndMovies/la-familia-charles-darwin</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://evolutiontheory.net/BooksAndMovies/la-familia-charles-darwin</guid> <pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 18:02:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Charles Darwin dinosaurs</title> <description>One of the objections to Charles Darwins theory of evolution was the lack of transitional forms in the fossil record forms that illustrated evolution in action, from one major group of animals to another. However, hardly a year ...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/my_pets_and_backyard_about_my.jpg" alt="Parakeets Shelly on the left" align="left" /><p>In the mid-19th century, paleontologists scrambling for fossils focused more on the prehistoric ancestors of contemporary creatures than on dinosaurs. But after Charles Darwin published his On the Origin of Species in 1859, the theory of evolution became one of the most controversial topics of the time. When American paleontologist O.C. Marsh identified the Equus parvulus (now Protohippus), many biologists considered the skeleton to be validation of Darwin's theory. In this brief letter from Charles Darwin to O.C. Marsh, Darwin expresses his thanks for Cope's work in the field. Aug 31 1880 My dear Prof. Marsh I received some time ago your very kind note of July 28th, and yesterday the magnificent volume. I have looked with renewed admiration at the plates, and will soon read the text. Your work on these old birds on the many fossil animals of N. America has afforded the best support to the theory of evolution, which has appeared within the last 20 years. The general appearance of the copy which you have sent me is worthy of its contents, and I can say nothing stronger than this.</p>]]></content:encoded> <category><![CDATA[Books And Movies]]></category> <link>https://evolutiontheory.net/BooksAndMovies/charles-darwin-dinosaurs</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://evolutiontheory.net/BooksAndMovies/charles-darwin-dinosaurs</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2024 16:09:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Charles Darwin and Galapagos Finches</title> <description>Wikipedia then hit the libraries. There is plenty of proof of new species being created.Observed instancesIsland genetics, the tendency of small, isolated genetic pools to produce unusual traits, has been observed in many ...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/darwins_finches_5_color_limited.jpg" alt="Darwin's Finches - 5 color" align="left" /><p>Today's entry was written by Thomas Burnett. You can read more about what we believe here. Note: Not only are evolution and biblical faith compatible, but committed Christians have been at the forefront of evolutionary science ever since Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859. This week we'll examine the lives of two devout Christians—David Lack and Asa Gray—who each made an enduring impact on modern biology. Today we feature the first of two posts on British ornithologist David Lack. Darwin’s Finches? Darwin’s finches are some of the most visible and recognizable symbols of evolution in the world today. Biology textbooks feature them prominently, and the National Academy of Sciences has enshrined them in the entrance of their headquarters in Washington, DC. Surely the finches that Darwin collected on the Galpagos islands were a central feature of his evolutionary theory, right? Lobby of The National Academies Building. Courtesy of CPNAS. Photo by Robert Lautman Actually, the Galpagos finches are never even mentioned in Darwin’s famous work On the Origin of Species. assing.2 It was only in 1845, in the second edition of The Voyage of the Beagle, that Darwin included a tantalizing sentence about the Galpagos finches: Seeing this gradation and diversity of structure in one small, intimately related group of birds, one might really fancy that from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends.3 However insightful this statement may have been, Darwin never published anything else about the Galpagos finches for the rest of his life. Nor did he publically present these birds as direct evidence for this theory of evolution.4 If these finches were so important to Darwin’s evolutionary theory, why did he remain silent about them? One of his comments in The Voyage of the Beagle provides us with a clue: Unfortunately most of the specimens of the finch tribe were mingled together; but I have strong reasons to suspect that some of the species of the subgroup Geospiza are confined to separate islands.5 When Darwin was exploring the Galpagos himself in 1835, he had not formulated his theory of evolution yet, and thus he did know what data would be necessary to make definitive conclusions about finch evolution. In particular, he did not keep careful track of which of his specimens came from which islands. Moreover, as was customary among naturalists at that time, Darwin only collected a small number specimens—he brought home only 31 finches and 64 total birds from the Galpagos.6</p>]]></content:encoded> <category><![CDATA[Natural Selection]]></category> <link>https://evolutiontheory.net/NaturalSelection/charles-darwin-and-galapagos-finches</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://evolutiontheory.net/NaturalSelection/charles-darwin-and-galapagos-finches</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2024 16:04:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>School Records of Charles Darwin</title> <description>Category: Paleontology wikimedia commons Charles Darwin in 1881, 22 years after he wrote "On the Origin of Species" and one year before his death. If he were still alive today, Charles Darwin would be proud of us. He’d also be ...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/commissioner_at_charles_darwin_school.jpg" alt="At Charles Darwin School" align="left" /><p>Category: Paleontology wikimedia commons Charles Darwin in 1881, 22 years after he wrote "On the Origin of Species" and one year before his death. If he were still alive today, Charles Darwin would be proud of us. He’d also be 204 years old. But hey, he did coin the idea of survival of the fittest. Maybe he used his insight to discover the secret of eternal life and is currently surviving in great fitness on some tropical island in the Galapagos Archipelago. That’s pretty unlikely, but at least Darwin can rest easy knowing he made a pretty big impact on our world. Charles Darwin, of course, is the father of the theory of evolution. He traveled the world and viewed all different kinds of organisms, wrote a ground-breaking book “On The Origin of Species, ” and changed scientific thought forever. He ascertained that all Earth’s species are descended from common ancestors, and through the process of natural selection, have been adapting and evolving and often becoming extinct, since the beginning of life. Simply put: if you can’t adapt to changes, your species is a goner. So why would Darwin be proud of us? Darwin laid the foundation for a school of thought that we’ve built on exponentially. Darwin’s ideas have touched on a great many aspects of modern-day humans’ lives. Science, of course, has benefited tremendously. In the field of paleontology: the idea of evolution has shed light on fossils, and vice versa. Biologists have learned about what it is that makes a species thrive, and how ecosystems and the species in them become extinct because of natural selection. Human psychology only ultimately makes sense in the context of evolution: we do what we do and think how we think because of that innate drive to survive. It isn’t just science. Literature, technology, music, politics, religion—you name it—the theory of evolution is pervasive in our society, and who do we have to thank for that? Charles Darwin.</p>]]></content:encoded> <category><![CDATA[Natural Selection]]></category> <link>https://evolutiontheory.net/NaturalSelection/school-records-of-charles-darwin</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://evolutiontheory.net/NaturalSelection/school-records-of-charles-darwin</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2024 15:32:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Charles Darwin facial expressions</title> <description>Ewen Callaway, online reporter In the Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals -- the neglected step-child of Charles Darwin's trifecta of treatises -- the father of evolution theorised that emotion and compassion were ...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/darwins_claim_of_universals_in_facial.png" alt="Are there universal facial" align="left" /><p>Ewen Callaway, online reporter In the Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals -- the neglected step-child of Charles Darwin's trifecta of treatises -- the father of evolution theorised that emotion and compassion were universal and naturally selected features of humans. While traveling around the world aboard the HMS Beagle, Darwin was struck by the fact that he could understand facial expressions of people from different cultures, but not their languages or gestures. Darwin also believed that our sense of moral compassion came from a natural desire to alleviate the suffering of others. He was an ardent abolitionist. Paul Ekman, a psychologist at the University of California, San Francisco, who has authored an introduction to Expressions of the Emotions, said today at a AAAS press conference that these views are nearly identical to those of Tibetan Buddhists. "I am now calling myself a Darwinian, " Ekman recalled the Dalai Lama saying, after Ekman read him some passages of Darwin's work. Ekman said he spent two full days in deep conversation with the Dalai Lama, resulting in a treatise of his own. He argues through several lines of evidence that Darwin's views on emotion and compassion were inspired directly by Tibetan Buddhism. "There's always the possibility that two wise people looking at the same species for long enough are going to come to the same conclusion, " he said. Ekman thinks otherwise. He bristled at requests to elaborate more on his ideas until his talk later today. I'll try to attend that session and provide an update. But Ekman did make one thing clear: "I'm not saying that Darwin was a Buddhist." Rather, he took intellectual inspiration in some aspects of the religion.</p>]]></content:encoded> <category><![CDATA[Facts And Quotes]]></category> <link>https://evolutiontheory.net/FactsAndQuotes/charles-darwin-facial-expressions</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://evolutiontheory.net/FactsAndQuotes/charles-darwin-facial-expressions</guid> <pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2024 15:30:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Facial expressions theory Charles Darwin</title> <description>Darwin’s Claim of Universals In Facial Expression Not Challenged Paul Ekman and Dacher Keltner Reprinted with permission from The Paul Ekman Group Paul Ekman, Emeritus Professor, University of California, San Francisco Dacher ...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/455705.jpg" alt="0402-facial-expressions.jpg" align="left" /><p>Darwin’s Claim of Universals In Facial Expression Not Challenged Paul Ekman and Dacher Keltner Reprinted with permission from The Paul Ekman Group Paul Ekman, Emeritus Professor, University of California, San Francisco Dacher Keltner, Professor, University of California, Berkeley Lisa Feldman-Barrett’s recent contribution (New York Times, February 28, 2014) seeks to undermine the science showing universality in the interpretation of facial expressions. In her eyes, recent evidence “challenges[ing] the theory, attributed to Charles Darwin, that facial movements might be evolved behaviors for expressing emotion.” Such a disagreement really belongs in exchanges of findings and theory in a scientific journal, evaluated by colleagues as evidence accumulates, not the public press. This is not the first time that Feldman-Barrett publicized her views in the press. We didn’t respond then, but feel compelled to do so now so that the public is not misled, and is apprised of the broader, Darwin-inspired science of emotional expression many scientists are working on today. First, let’s get the science right. Darwin never claimed in his great book The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) that all facial expressions are universal, only a specific set of expressions that he had observed and studied. Nearly one-hundred years later Silvan Tomkins helped Ekman and Carrol Izard refine and add to Darwin’s list. In the late sixties, Izard and Ekman in separate studies each showed photographs from Tomkins’ own collection, to people in various literate cultures, Western and Non-Western. They found strong cross cultural agreement in the labeling of those expressions. Ekman closed the loophole that observing mass media might account for cross cultural agreement by studying people in a Stone Age culture in New Guinea who had seen few if any outsiders and no media portrayals of emotion. These preliterate people also recognized the same emotions when shown the Darwin-Tomkins set. The capacity for humans in radically different cultures to label facial expressions with terms from a list of emotion terms has replicated nearly 200 hundred times. Feldman Barrett is right to ask whether individuals in radically different cultures provide similar interpretations of facial expressions if allowed to describe the expressions on their own terms, rather than a list of emotion terms. Haidt and Keltner did such a study comparing the free responses to the Darwin-Tomkins set of expressions and some other expressions, with people in rural India and the U.S. Once again the findings of universality were clear cut, and evidence of universality in the expression of embarrassment was also found. The evidence on the judgment of the Darwin-Tomkins facial expressions is robust; so we suppose is Feldman-Barrett’s evidence for the expressions not covered in the Darwin-Tomkins set. She has missed that point, not understanding the difference between unselected and theoretically selected facial expressions.</p>]]></content:encoded> <category><![CDATA[Books And Movies]]></category> <link>https://evolutiontheory.net/BooksAndMovies/facial-expressions-theory-charles-darwin</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://evolutiontheory.net/BooksAndMovies/facial-expressions-theory-charles-darwin</guid> <pubDate>Sun, 04 Aug 2024 15:07:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Charles Darwin natural selection for Kids</title> <description>Natural selection is the gradual, non-random process by which biological traits become either more or less common in a population as a function of differential reproduction of their bearers. It is a key mechanism of evolution ...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/charles_darwin_skull_made.jpg" alt="Charles Darwin & Skull made" align="left" /><p>Natural selection is the gradual, non-random process by which biological traits become either more or less common in a population as a function of differential reproduction of their bearers. It is a key mechanism of evolution. The term "natural selection" was popularized by Charles Darwin who intended it to be compared with artificial selection, what we now call selective breeding. Variation exists within all populations of organisms. This occurs partly because random mutations cause changes in the genome of an individual organism, and these mutations can be passed to offspring. ghout the individuals’ lives, their genomes interact with their environments to cause variations in traits. (The environment of a genome includes the molecular biology in the cell, other cells, other individuals, populations, species, as well as the abiotic environment.) Individuals with certain variants of the trait may survive and reproduce more than individuals with other variants. Therefore the population evolves. xual selection, for example. Natural selection acts on the phenotype, or the observable characteristics of an organism, but the genetic (heritable) basis of any phenotype that gives a reproductive advantage will become more common in a population (see allele frequency). Over time, this process can result in populations that specialize for particular ecological niches and may eventually result in the emergence of new species. In other words, natural selection is an important process (though not the only process) by which evolution takes place within a population of organisms. As opposed to artificial selection, in which humans favour specific traits, in natural selection the environment acts as a sieve through which only certain variations can pass.</p>]]></content:encoded> <category><![CDATA[Natural Selection]]></category> <link>https://evolutiontheory.net/NaturalSelection/charles-darwin-natural-selection-for-kids</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://evolutiontheory.net/NaturalSelection/charles-darwin-natural-selection-for-kids</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2024 17:53:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> </channel></rss>If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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