Natural Selection
Reproductive variation is central to evolution. All else in evolutionary theory follows directly or indirectly from the fact that organisms reproduce with variation.
...The driving force of weather is the sun.
No. It is merely one of many parameters that influence the direction of evolution, and can actually be a driving force in evolution. For example, the rise of warm-blooded mammals as a result of colder climate (a clear period of limited food resources) caused by climatic or astronomical phenomena, like the impact of a meteor.
Thomas Hunt Morgan? Probably because working with his flies he saw large mutational events that lead him to a saltationist position. That the greatest driving force in evolution is mutation. He was a geneticist before the new synthesis showed the true power of natural selection.
To understand the universe.
To Darwin, the central concept of organic evolution was natural selection. He proposed that individuals with advantageous traits are more likely to survive and reproduce, passing those traits on to their offspring, leading to changes in the characteristics of a population over time.
Social Darwinists believed that society should operate based on natural selection principles, with the fittest individuals or groups rising to the top. They argued that competition and inequality were necessary for progress and that government intervention in social and economic affairs was detrimental to the natural order.
Charles Darwin Published "On the origin of species by means of natural selection" in 1859. He was not the first to postulate evolution. His grandfather Erasmus Darwin advanced the theory of evolution 75 years earlier. Charles Darwin gave us the driving force "natural selection"
Darwin claimed it was the process of natural selection that drove evolution. However this is incomplete, without both a process that creates variation and the process of natural selection evolution could not work. There are many processes that create variation (e.g. mutation, crossover, transformation, infection, conjugation, polyploidy).
Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution. Strictly speaking, Charles Darwin did not put forward the "theory of evolution". He publish a book called "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection OR The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life". The theory of evolution had been around for a long time, in fact, his grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, had proposed evolution 75 years before Charles published his book. Charles Darwin gave us the driving force for evolution - Natural Selection. There had been suggestions for evolution and evidence in fossils well before Charles Darwin. It is just that nobody could work out why until Charles.
adaptation and natural selection
The advent of the T-1 carrier as the preferred transmission medium was the principle force driving the evolution of the PBX
The Nazi's believed that "the driving force in history was race."
Darwin Mobile Force ended in 1940.
Darwin Mobile Force was created in 1938.
Reproductive variation is central to evolution. All else in evolutionary theory follows directly or indirectly from the fact that organisms reproduce with variation.
Nicolas Cage is the voice of Darwin in the movie G-Force.