A number of scientists have worked in the field of evolutionary Biology, but the most important contribution was made by Charles Darwin.
Darwin is the most famous one and he proposed the Theory of Evolution.
Random processes are not part of the theory of evolution by natural selection. Excepting random genetic mutation that provides the variation natural selection works on.
Evolution states that a species will change to become more suited to its environment. Natural selection is survival of the fittest. The newly evolved version of the species is more fit to survive, therefore thriving.
Studying genetics has given us the mechanism by which evolution works, on the most basic level.
Because there's supporting evidence for it. Lots of supporting evidence. Overwhelming, awe-inspiring amounts of supporting evidence.A scientific theory is not just a guess. My chemistry teacher explained it this way: a theory is something we can explain (the theory of evolution or the theory of relativity). A law is something we can't explain (the law of gravity. We know it works, we're just not sure exactly why or how).Charles Darwin spent years developing his hypothesis of natural selection. There is ample evidence supporting his final theory, some found long after his death. To this day, archeologists still find fossil evidence that fits into Darwin's explanation of changing species.
Darwin is the most famous one and he proposed the Theory of Evolution.
Evolution is a fact, not a theory. There are theories as to how the process of evolution works. The most notable is through natural selection proposed by Darwin and Wallace
Oh yes, absolutely. I recommend a novel entitled "Evolution" by Stephen Baxter.
Works on studies of genetics, phylogenetics, cladistics, evolutionary theory and experimentation, population genetics, systematics and molecular evolution, to name a few fields a evolutionary biologists works in.
He might not of if Malthus had not been around but he depended on the works of Lyell.
The best way to respond to this is to explain that there is the fact of evolution and the theory of evolution. Evolution is defined as genetic change within a population. This is an easily observable fact both in nature and the laboratory. The theory of evolution is an explanation for the diversity of life on earth based on the observable facts that evolution does indeed occur. It is exactly the same situation with gravity. Gravity is a fact, an easily observed physical phenomenon. But there is also a Theory of Gravitation, an explanation for the phenomenon itself and how it works. That there is a theory for both evolution and gravity does not mean the facts of evolution and gravity are any less true.
As you said, previously published works were well acquainted with the process of evolution, but Darwin gave evolution a mechanism of action through his theory of evolution by natural selection in his 1859 publication.Natural selection is the nonrandom survival and reproductive success of randomly varying organisms.
Random processes are not part of the theory of evolution by natural selection. Excepting random genetic mutation that provides the variation natural selection works on.
A theory models or explains why something is the way it is or how something works. If at some point a scientist find this theory to be inadequate (doesn't fully explain/describe it) due to recent research he/she may have done the theory will need to be modified to include the latest discoveries.
Yes, but you will always find people who say that it compliments or works alongside evolution.Another Answer:Design requires a designer. The 'theory' of evolution does not speak of an intelligent designer. Indeed today, more and more scientist/educated people are coming back to the fold of believing in the Bible and discounting Darwin's ideas as insufficient for describing the world we live in and its origins.
"Theory" in the "Theory of Evolution" phrase (and in any other similar phrase, like "theory of relativity") means that evolution is just something we suppose explains how world works, until we find a better way to explain things..."Theory" actually refers to the inherent inability of human to know the 'real' reality - or even if such 'real' reality exists (as the world of ideas of Plato).
Schneider's cat works by quantum theory of superposition, and interpretations of quantum mechanics have been proposed. There for showing you the use of Schneider's cat work.