Charles Darwin

Yes, Gregor Mendel's groundbreaking work on inheritance was published in 1866, while Charles Darwin was still alive. However, Mendel's work went largely unnoticed until it was rediscovered and accepted by the scientific community in the early 20th century.

The long neck of giraffes is an example of evolution through natural selection. Giraffes with longer necks were able to reach higher leaves for food, giving them a survival advantage. Over time, due to this advantageous trait being passed down to offspring, giraffes with longer necks became more prevalent in the population.

Yes, the rate of development can be influenced by natural selection. Traits that affect an organism's development can impact its survival and reproduction, thereby subjecting them to selection pressures that may favor certain rates of development over others. Over multiple generations, individuals with beneficial rates of development may be more likely to pass on their genes, leading to evolutionary changes in development rates within a population.

Yes, natural selection can act upon body shape by promoting traits that enhance an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment. For example, organisms with body shapes that improve their efficiency in obtaining food or avoiding predators may have higher fitness and be more likely to pass on their genes to the next generation.

An understanding of genetics, particularly the work of Gregor Mendel on inheritance patterns, provided crucial evidence for natural selection as the driving force of evolution. This, combined with knowledge of genetic variation and mutations, helped reconcile genetics with the theory of evolution in the modern synthesis, demonstrating how genetic changes accumulate over time to drive evolutionary change.

Yes! The theory of Evolution shows that a species will thrive if it has favorable characteristics.

A simple way of explaining it is this: Say that when humans are still in the trees, one pregnant mother is hit by a stray photon of radiation (OK I'm dumbing it down here) and her child is mutated. The child has received the 'Sleepy Smoker Gene' (OK I'm REALLY dumbing it down here. This gene may consist of nicotine sensitivity and associated drowsiness but you get the idea).

This isn't very important at the time as nobody smokes, but fast forward to 2010. Say that the sleepy smoker gene has been inherited by every 1 in 1000 people because they are descendants of this mother primate. Now, smoking is popular and more people are likely to fall asleep while smoking. These people may eventually die off and the more favourable genes in the human race will replace them. The sleepy smoker gene will disappear into obscurity and no more people will fall asleep and die while smoking.

Paleontologists finding of fossils clearly shows the link between species as they adapt and change over hundreds of millions of years. Literally a timeline of the structure of animals to what present day species looks like

Actually, genetic drift is a random process that leads to the change in frequency of certain traits in a population over time. It is not based on the fitness or survival advantage of specific traits, unlike natural selection.

Successful reproduction is critical in the theory of natural selection because it is through reproduction that traits are passed on to offspring. Individuals with traits that offer advantages in survival and reproduction are more likely to pass those traits to the next generation, thus increasing their frequency in the population over time. This process drives the adaptation of species to their environment through the selection of beneficial traits.

There are no "houses", but rather there are 31 constituent "colleges" most notably:

Trinity

St. Johns

Pembroke

Gonville and Caius

Downing

Clare

St. Catherine

King's

Homerton

Emmanuel

Wolfson

Peterhouse

Girton

Queens

Fitzwilliam

Newnham

Lucy Cavendish

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Trinity Hall

The discovery of DNA and the ability to study genetic sequences have provided strong evidence supporting evolution by showing similarities in DNA among different species, indicating a common ancestry. This molecular evidence was not available to Darwin and has since reinforced the theory of evolution.

Their survival is dependent on their ability to compete for resources like food and mates, evade predators, and adapt to environmental changes. Only individuals with advantageous traits that improve their chances of survival and reproduction will pass on their genes to future generations.

No, Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection actually complements the principles of biogeography. Biogeography, the study of the distribution of species, provides evidence of how species have adapted to their environments over time through the process of evolution. Darwin himself used biogeographical evidence to support his theory of evolution.

It flies in the face of Established Religion and every thing it stands for.

Although evolution makes no claim about religion or even how life sprang from un-life, religious adherents see it as undermining the belief that God created everything and as science trying to replace God or someother supernatural diety.

All evolution seeks to explain is the changing of living organisms from one form to another according to the dictates of the environment and natural selection, all of which could be ascribed to divine design or scientic explanation.

Reproductive isolation acts as a barrier preventing interbreeding between different populations of organisms, leading to genetic changes over time through mechanisms like natural selection, genetic drift, and mutation. These changes can accumulate and eventually result in the formation of new species, a process known as speciation.

evolution generally occurs when there are genetic variations within a population that provide a survival advantage in a particular environment. Those individuals with advantageous traits are more likely to survive, reproduce, and pass on these traits to their offspring, leading to a change in the gene pool over generations.

Characteristics acquired during an organism's life are generally not passed on through genes. Just because giraffes stretch their neck doesn't mean they will get longer.

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Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection related to the origin of structural and physiological adaptations because : Natural selection is when a certain organism adapts to its environment changes . For example , The Box Jellyfish has been existing befor the Dinasours which eventually helps us understand that it adapted to the changes in its environment in order for it to not extinct . It might have become the predator of its habitat or used camouflage to survive .

First of all, Darwin's theory supports evolutionism instead of creationism (the mainly-religious belief that everything was created by God in the beginning).

Secondly, Darwin's theory contrasts Lamarck's because the latter thought that individuals belonging to a certain species could pass on to the nest generations features that they had acquired during their life, while the former states that only the ones with the best features survive (struggle for life), thus following generations will present those features

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Gradualism isn't a prediction of natural selection, but of our understanding the mechanisms that produce reproductive variation. Natural selection makes predictions about allele frequencies in populations and reproductive fitness.

One aspect of Lamarck's ideas that has some support is the concept of use and disuse, where organisms can modify their traits based on environmental demands. This idea is seen in some cases of phenotypic plasticity. However, his theory of inheritance of acquired traits (the idea that changes acquired during an organism's lifetime can be passed on to offspring) has been largely disproven by the field of genetics.

I'm not sure Thomas Malthus had any theory pertaining to "evolution," strictly.

Malthus was rather the prophet of "overpopulation." He put forward the idea that, if human populations kept reproducing, eventually we would crowd the world and create an ecological disaster.