Charles Darwin observations and documentation was invaluable in unraveling the phenomena of natural selection and specie divergence and diversity. What Darwin did not have at the time was an understanding of genetics and DNA, which was not even imaged until 1953 by James Watson and Francis Crick.
The mechanism of heredity and the age of the earth. The mechanism of heredity Darwin cane up with, blending, was severely challenged and gave Darwin much worry, though Mendel soon had the answer to heredity. The age of the earth that had been set at the time worried Darwin also as evolution by natural selection needed much time to generate all the diversity on earth, both past and present.
Well he knew about creatures changing according to their environment, but he didn't know just how they changed. We discovered how later on.
the idea that species change slowly over time
The idea that natural selection was a random process.
he didnt understand the process.
The mechanism of heritability.
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•The overall observations he made were Survival of the Fittest. He observed the finches beaks from the mainland and from the islands. He realized that finches were all the same species, however they adapted in their own special way.
I am doing a roundtable project where we have to pretend newton and darwin live in the same time. How would newton react to darwin's theory of evolution and what type of things would they argue/debate over?
I think he earned is because of the things and species he studied and that is the reason he earned it.
In a nutshell, the works of James Hutton and Charles Lyell served to show Darwin that evolution actually took place. Based on their notions that the earth was consistently changing, Darwin saw that living things were evolving too.
Well, since Darwin was the one who invented the theory of evolution, I would say that he did biology because biology is the study of living things.
Charles Darwin explained the changes in man and animals over time. Those who believe in the theory of evolution believe that living things adapt to their environment and change over time.
charles darwin prposed the 1st theory to explain the formation of life on the earth
lots of things
He observed things with his eyes :)
Scientists did not prove things then anymore than they prove things now. Evidence, masses of converging evidence support the theory of evolution by natural selection. Darwin, in his day, had much evidence to support his theory. All the way from artificial selection to island biogeography. Since that time the theory has moved on to where it is no longer just Darwin's theory, but modified and supported with so much evidence that the theory became the bedrock of biology. Go here. talkorigins.org
By putting forward a theory that wasn't that didnt agree with the churches version on the origin of the living things on the earth.
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•The overall observations he made were Survival of the Fittest. He observed the finches beaks from the mainland and from the islands. He realized that finches were all the same species, however they adapted in their own special way.
tortiose and finch.(Galapagos Islands
Charles Darwin
AnswerCharles Lyell, lawyer and geologist who developed the theory of uniformitarianism in geology is commonly recognised as the one person who had the most profound influence on Darwin. Captain Fitzroy with whom Darwin sailed on his famous voyage on the Beagle, gave Darwin a copy of Lyell's 'Principles of Geology'. It is difficult to say who had the second greatest influence, but certainly his grandfather Erasmus Darwin, who himself wrote on Evolution had a great influence.