answersLogoWhite

0

Relating to Charles Darwin or his theory of natural selection, i.e. survival of the fittest. Also, highly competitive

User Avatar

Wiki User

14y ago

What else can I help you with?

Continue Learning about General Science

What two people disproved evolution?

The Darwinian model of evolution by natural selection has not been disproved.


Which idea did lamarck propose that was rejected by his fellow scientists?

That organisms pass on traits acquired in their lifetimes. It was rejected in favour of Darwinian evolution, in which species and not individuals evolve, but Larmarckism is valid to a point where epigenetics is concerned.


Was the final solution directly linked to eugenics national destiny and darwinian evolution?

No. Adolf Hitler's Endlösung was the product of an insane brain, inspired by a long religious tradition of anti-semitism that goes back centuries.


How do you argue in favor of evolution when gaps are present?

Darwinism is a somewhat outdated term, referring sometimes to classical Darwinian notions of evolution by natural selection, and sometimes to the more comprehensive Modern Evolutionary Synthesis. Neither can be said to have 'gaps', per sé. The classical notion of Darwinian natural selection isn't the whole of the story, but then it never claimed to be the definitive answer - and indeed it wasn't, since it was elaborated upon, refined, strengthened by every new discovery since Darwin's time. As for the Modern Synthesis: nor does it claim to be the whole of the story. Every scientist agrees that there remain plenty of questions to be answered - in evolutionary biology as much as in every other field of science.


The theory that evolution occurs slowly but steadily is called?

Darwin's classic theory of evolution assumed that evolution is a slow, contunuous process, by which new species evolve and emerge. This is referred to at times as "organic evolution" and the "synthetic theory of evolution", or just the Darwinian theory of evolution. A newer theory, proposed originally by Niles Eldridge and Stephen Jay Gould is known as "punctuated equilibria", a model in which the evloution of new species occurs only periodically, in relatively rapid spurts. See "Time Frames the Rethinking of Darwinian Evolution and the Theory of Punctuated Equilibraia, Simon & Schuster, 1985"AnswerThe slow, constant process has also been called "gradualism."