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Who is the person that formed the ideas of natural selection and evolution?
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Was Darwin the only person to come up with evolution?
No - Alfred Russel Wallace co-discovered evolution by natural selection.
Does the term pioneer have to relate to a person?
Yes it does. For example, "She pioneered the student graduate scheme" or "Charles Darwin pioneered the natural selection theory of evolution"
What did Richard Dawkins think of Charles Darwin?
As a scientist, Richard Dawkins believes the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection is an accurate explanation of the evolution of life on Earth. He does not seem to have expressed an opinion on Charles Darwin as a person.
What is the defininton of natural selection?
Natural selection is part of Darwin's proposed theory of evolution. What it basically is is that animals or plants that aren't adapted well to their environment die off or don't reproduce well, and the well adapted species survive and flourish. Its basically the strrong will survive, in normal person terms.
Do Darwin's theories of evolution by natural selection contradict the principles of biographic?
"Biographic" or "biographical" refers to an account of a person's life, and I see no reason why this theory would contradict any such account.
What did Darwin's theory of evolution provide that earler theories of evolution had not?
Darwin was by no means the first person to come up with a theory of evolution. However, he was the first person provide a mechanism by which evolution could occur. He called this natural selection and is essentially the way in which individuals with characterisitcs that better suit their environment survive and ones which don't die out. Therefore, eventually the whole species will possess these advantageous characteristics and evolution will have occured.
How does evolution and natural selection differ?
Evolution is the change in allele frequency over time in a population of organisms. This change over time can be just recombination, genetic drift or gene flow. Natural selection can cause evolution, but individuals are selected while populations evolve, so only a selected person's progeny would be part of that population's evolution. Natural selection is the nonrandom survival and reproductive success of randomly varying organisms. So, individuals who have beneficial variations, in their immediate environment, can be selected and will pass on those variations, in their germ line, to progeny who will insert their alleles into the populations gene pool where allele frequency may change; evolution. This is soo stupid don't listen to this crap. I don't understand why all these ediots post this
Who is associated with the theory of evolution?
Charles Darwin is primarily associated with the theory of evolution through his work on natural selection and the publication of "On the Origin of Species." Other scientists, such as Alfred Russel Wallace, also contributed to the development of evolutionary theory.
What concept is not a part of the theory of evolution?
Natural selection is part of the theory of evolution. The answer is transmission of acquired characteristics. Characteristics acquired but which are not genetic are not transmitted. For example, just because a person is a muscle builder, that doesn't mean his children will be really strong. Hope I helped!!
Where did Darwin meet Lamarck?
Darwin did not actually meet Lamarck in person. Lamarck's ideas on evolution were published before Darwin's time, and Darwin was familiar with them through his readings. Darwin's theory of natural selection differed from Lamarck's theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics.
Who invented natural gas?
It is "natural" meaning a person didn't invent it. It was formed naturally by the earth over millions of years.
Evolution by natural selection may disappear in homo sapiens but may be replaced with evolution by human intervention?
It means scientist using clone technology to breed a super-human, as it may be called. Humans have intervened in the natural selection of the species by using medical means to prolong life and to allow people to procreate when they could not have done so naturally. (This only affects the natural selection of the species when it affects whether or not a person can procreate, so medical intervention that prolongs life well after the age of being able to procreate is unlikely to have an effect on natural selection, unless it allows procreation with aged and therefore less healthy sperm or eggs.) This will eventually have an effect on the species by increasing the likelihood of heritable traits being passed on that are not to the benefit of the species. Evolution by human intervention would require that the intervention changes the set of people able to procreate. In vitro fertilisation would be one means by which this occurs if the difficulty with conceiving is a heritable one. The abortion of foetuses of the less desired sex, or bearing undesired traits or diseases is another.
