Charles Darwin proposed a mechanism - called natural selection - for how evolution takes place. Evolution is the process by which living things become adapted to their environment and new species develop. The idea of evolution was already widely discussed before Darwin but there was no widely accepted mechanism. Darwin's idea of natural selection filled this gap. Natural selection is sometimes described as the "survival of the fittest". It means that individuals which are best adapted to their environment will survive and leave more offspring than less well-adapted individuals. The offspring will inherit the useful features, so the species will gradually change and become better adapted to its environment. Over long periods of time species can change so much that they become a new species. By historical accident, Alfred Wallace came up with the same idea as Darwin at the same time. However Darwin had been developing his idea for a longer time and had collected a mass of detailed evidence to support it. He published this in his famous book 'On the Origin of Species' in 1859. Darwin did not know how inheritance works so he could not explain evolution in terms of genes. But the basic idea of natural selection has been strengthened by modern discoveries in genetics. Natural selection takes place in two steps: # For selection to happen there must be differences between individuals - otherwise it doesn't matter which individuals survive. Only differences which are caused by genes can be inherited. So the first step is the production of new genes by mutation. This is a random process.
# Competition between individuals means that those with the most 'useful' genes will leave the most offspring ie these genes will be selected and will make up a greater proportion of the next generation.
In this way natural selection explains both adaptation and speciation (origin of new species). For an excellent introduction to evolution see: http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/evo101/IIntro.shtml
Charles Darwin. Also known as Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
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Darwin is the father of evolution. He was a scientist. He was also a writer. He popularized the idea of natural selection.
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Charles Darwin attempted to answer the question of how species evolve and adapt to their environments, proposing the theory of natural selection as the mechanism driving this process.
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Charles Darwin wanted to answer how biodiversity arises and how species evolve over time. His main question was how different species had changed and adapted to their environments through the process of natural selection.
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If the question refers to the first name of Darwin, the city that is now the capital of Northern Territory, it was first called Palmerston. If the question refers to Darwin the scientist, his first name was Charles.
Charles Darwin. Also known as Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
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