How did Darwin change the way people think?

Answer 1

When Darwin tried to explain the diversity of life in the Galapagos, he began to think about natural selection. This resulted in the following

1. he developed a theory of natural selection which is a naturally occurring process in which only those organisms with the best traits for survival in an environment survive to reproduce; over time this process results in changes in the genetic characteristics of a species.
2. he published a book called The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, which attempted to explain the process of evolution.
3. he came up with a theory for natural selection summed up in four statements: all organisms produce more offspring than can possibly survive, their is incredible variation within species, some variations increase the chances of an organism to survive and be able to reproduce and over time variation can lead to changes in the genetics of a species.

Answer 2

Answer:Darwin and the other evolutionists did, indeed, change the way people think.

Once, people believed in God. But due to the teachings of the evolutionists, people now believe that there is no God. And it is also because man doesn't want to be responsible to God for their actions, that they accept the evolution theory, which denies a God.

Answer 2

Darwin was one of the first people to provide a testable explanation for natural phenomena in purely mechanistic terms, and to substantiate this model with a large collection of observational and experimental data. His model gave the life sciences a firm basis in knowable natural principles.

Previous explanations, including those based on religious doctrine, may have ascribed to the human species, or even to specific ethnic groups, a privileged position, allowing for many injustices. Evolutionary theory was instrumental in altering the popular view to see that humans are a part of the fabric of life on this planet, and that no one human is "better" than another.

Unfortunately, there were some who took the phrase "survival of the fittest" too literally, and who perverted the principles of evolutionary theory to suggest that just the opposite was true, and that some humans were better than others. See also: eugenics.

Answer 3

That under this type of selection pressure, men choosing domestic animals for certain traits, organisms would change their traits over time and these changes were heritable. Darwin used this analogy to formulate his theory of evolution by natural selection. There the environment is the selector.

Answer 4

As he investigated artificial selection extensively, Darwin thought that if breeders could do this to animals in a few hundred years then natural selection working with the same variation in organisms and saving all that was good, discarding all that was bad, could do the changes, over deep time, to organisms observed in nature. The species problem solved.

Answer 5

Darwin said that the traits of organisms can change and that certain traits can spread through population.