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It is the reason humans and all of life on Earth exist. It is the most powerful idea ever to come into the human mind. Charles Darwin discovered the reason why we exist and in the process answered questions of the sort "What is the meaning of life?"

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What is the definition of the word sustain?

To sustain, means to survive the environment. Sustaining is very important for evolution.


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.


Why did the early man scholars reject fossils as a mean to trace human evolution?

Early man scholars rejected fossils as a means to trace human evolution because they held religious or cultural beliefs that contradicted the idea of human evolution. Additionally, fossils were not well understood or widely accepted as evidence of human ancestry at the time.


When studying evolution the term isolation means one?

Isolation in evolution refers to the separation of a population from the rest of its species, leading to reduced gene flow between different groups. This isolation can be geographic, reproductive, or behavioral, and can ultimately result in the development of distinct species through the process of divergent evolution.


Who gave the theory of evolution?

There is no " theory of evolution " as evolution is a fact. The theory is; the theory of evolution by natural selection and explains much about the fact of evolution. Charles Robert Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace come up with the theory of evolution by natural selection, though natural selection is a phrase coined by Darwin.