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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>Wed, 12 Mar 2025 09:43:32 -0400</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>daily</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item> <title>Charles Darwin and the Finches</title> <description>Pretty much, a species of birds evolved to their surroundings.. longer beaks to reach further in the tree holes to get food...Darwin's finches (also known as the Galpagos finches or as Geospizinae) are a group of about 15 ...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/spotlight_galpagos_kids_discover_magazine.jpg" alt="The Galápagos Islands are home" align="left" /><p>By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Which nest is best to eliminate a blood-sucking pest? Scientists seeking to help endangered Galapagos Islands birds survive a deadly parasitic threat put that question to the test. Researchers on Monday described a new method to assist Darwin’s finches in combating the larvae of parasitic flies responsible for killing numerous nestlings of the famous birds that helped inspire Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. They placed cotton balls treated with a mild pesticide near where the birds were building their nests. The birds picked up bits of the cotton with their beaks and incorporated it into their nests, killing the fly maggots while causing no harm to the birds or their offspring, the researchers said. The pesticide was permethrin, used to treat head lice in people. It also kills flies of the species Philornis downsi that was apparently unwittingly introduced by people to the Galapagos Islands and has been blamed for population declines among Darwin’s finches, including two endangered species. “This parasite is not historically found in the Galapagos Islands and, therefore, Darwin’s finches have not had enough time to evolve defenses against the parasites, ” said University of Utah biology professor Dale Clayton, one of the researchers. “In some years, 100 percent of nestlings die as a direct result of the parasites. It is critical to find a way to control the parasites in order to help the birds, ” Clayton said. The flies probably came aboard ships or planes arriving at the Galapagos and were first noticed as a problem in 1997. The flies lay eggs in bird’s nests. When they hatch, the parasitic larvae feed on the blood of nestlings and their mothers. Finding a method to control the flies has become a top priority for scientists studying the Galapagos birds. “There are currently no methods to effectively combat the parasite, ” said University of Utah biology doctoral student Sarah Knutie, another of the researchers. ‘SITTING ON MY PORCH’ A casual observation at a research facility in the Galapagos led to the idea of helping the birds help themselves.</p>]]></content:encoded> <category><![CDATA[Facts And Quotes]]></category> <link>https://evolutiontheory.net/FactsAndQuotes/charles-darwin-and-the-finches</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://evolutiontheory.net/FactsAndQuotes/charles-darwin-and-the-finches</guid> <pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2025 17:43:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Charles Darwin middle name</title> <description>Charles Bradlaugh is a great grandfather of mine. My first name is Charles, my elder brothers middle name is Bradlaugh. Just found that out a few years ago from a first cousin. I had never heard of Charles Bradlaugh before I ...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/on_the_origin_of_species.jpg" alt="Upload image" align="left" /><p>Charles Bradlaugh is a great grandfather of mine. My first name is Charles, my elder brothers middle name is Bradlaugh. Just found that out a few years ago from a first cousin. <br />I had never heard of Charles Bradlaugh before I was told, always wondered while growing up what kind of middle name Bradlaugh was.<br />Charles Bradlaugh and his girlfriend were sentenced to the Tower of London for publishing a book on birth control, they lived in London in the mid eighteen hundreds.<br />Mahatma Ghandi attended Bradlaugh's FUNeral and Bradlaugh knew Darwin but how well I do not knowOn the origin of species - Charles Darwin Photo (12948319</p>]]></content:encoded> <category><![CDATA[Facts And Quotes]]></category> <link>https://evolutiontheory.net/FactsAndQuotes/charles-darwin-middle-name</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://evolutiontheory.net/FactsAndQuotes/charles-darwin-middle-name</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:32:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Charles Darwin patterns of diversity</title> <description>An article in Rolling Stone (October 20, 1994) by Adam Miller called J. Philippe Rushton a 'professor of hate,' someone who 'takes money from an organization with a terrible past' (the Pioneer Fund, a foundation said to have an ...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="/img/the_charles_darwin_reserve_community_history.jpg" alt="The Charles Darwin Reserve" align="left" /><p>Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and the comparative fertility and vigour of self- and cross-pollinated species, work that would culminate in two books, Insectivorous plants(1875) and Cross and self fertilisation(1876). Darwin’s son Francis became increasingly involved in this botanical research, eventually renouncing plans for a medical career to become his father’s scientific secretary. Darwin had always relied on assistance from within the family, and he was clearly delighted by Francis’s decision. A large portion of the letters Darwin received in 1873 were in response to The expression of the emotions in man and animals, published the previous year. As was typical, readers wrote to Darwin personally to offer suggestions, observations, and occasional criticisms, some of which were incorporated in a later edition. Darwin also contributed to discussions in the scientific weekly Nature on the role of inherited and acquired characteristics in animals. The subject was brought closer to home by Francis Galton’s work on inherited talent, which prompted Darwin to reflect on the traits and conditions that had led to his achievement in science. The importance Darwin attached to friendship and patronage in science were manifest in his leading roles in creating a private memorial fund for Thomas Henry Huxley, and in efforts to alleviate the financial troubles of Anton Dohrn’s Zoological Station at Naples. Darwin had resumed experiments on the common sundew. Taking up his research again in January, he wrote to Joseph Dalton Hooker, “It is wonderful how many points I omitted to observe, which I ought to have observed” (letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 January [1873]). Drosera was the main focus of Darwin’s study of insectivorous plants, a group that also included the Venus fly trap (Dionaea muscipula). The experiments involved not only feeding meat, egg, and gelatine to the plants, but also applying various acids and alkaloids, and even electrical stimulation. On sending Darwin a specimen of the carnivorous Drosophyllum lusitanicum , Hooker wrote: “Pray work your wicked will on it—root leaf & branch!” (letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 January 1873). Darwin found that the glandular hairs on the leaves of Drosera were sensitive to slight pressure and minute quantities of fluid. Material applied to the centre caused the outermost tentacles to bend inward, so that the plant closed like a fist. Darwin was fascinated by this transmission of “motor impulse”, which seemed analogous to muscular contraction in animals: “a nerve is touched … a sensation is felt” (Insectivorous plants, p. 63). The plants secreted a viscid fluid, which Darwin suspected attracted insects by its odour, like “a baited trap” (ibid., p. 17). Through a series of painstaking experiments, Darwin determined that the secretions increased and became more acidic after inflection, like the gastric juices in the stomach, so that the plant could be said “to feed like an animal” (ibid., p.18).</p>]]></content:encoded> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <link>https://evolutiontheory.net/Biography/charles-darwin-patterns-of-diversity</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://evolutiontheory.net/Biography/charles-darwin-patterns-of-diversity</guid> <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 18:22:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <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> </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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