Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin's mother was of the middle class ( she was of the Wedgwood family ) and financially supported by Darwin's father, Robert. She never worked, to the best of my knowledge, and died when Charles Darwin was just seven years old.

The theory of evolution by natural selection, of course. Herbert Spencer was wrong about many things but he was not wrong about this. Humans are the ultimate, though partial product, body and mind, of naturally selective process over many years in many differing environments.

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Pancakes taste good because they are fluffy, and the narrator says he likes fluffy things so he must like dogs because they bark. The dog barking makes the pancakes fluffy, which in turn makes the narrator like children because they cry. The child crying makes the dog bark, which in turn makes the narrator like men because they comfort their babies. The man caring for their babies make pancakes because the baby cries then the dog barks then the pancakes fluff. That is the theory of evolution.

The comparisons between the anatomies of various organisms show common ancestry which supports evolution.

he looked at the different islands and found that the same species on every different island had adapted to their certain island

It is unclear to me to what degree Charles Darwin might have been a theist, or rather, a deist. He might have allowed for creationism in some form, where through some intelligent agency the first single celled lifeforms were put on Earth, in the expectation that they would multiply, evolve and produce complexity. But more likely he believed that the first life was the result of natural processes. There's a link below analyzing Darwin's beliefs on the subject.

What sources available to me don't tell me is what Darwin believed about the origin of the planet and the universe. He lived in a time where the age of the Earth and the cosmos were still very much in dispute, and no single preferred hypothesis existed to explain their origin. He might have subscribed to something like the Kant Nebular Hypothesis, or he might have speculated along very different lines - if at all.

Charles Darwin studied many different species throughout his life. During the 5 year journey on the beagle in 1831, Darwin collected and catologed many different species from the galopogus islands. The most famous species that he collected and lead him to his theory were the finches.

Darwin collected enormous numbers of fossils and specimens of extant species, and made thousands of observations of changes. His observations clearly documented that species undergo change over time.

Since Darwin's time we have gathered much more data about the processes of evolutionary change, such that the theory of evolution is now considered the foundational concept of modern biology.

They are a classic example of adaptive radiation. Most of the animals on the Islands are from South America and came to the Islands, diversified into many species which inhabit different Islands in the chain.

The finches and tortoises are the best example of this adaptive radiation; just evolution over time.

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I think you mean the concept of gradualism and the man is Charles Lyell, whose geological concept proceeded Darwin's biological concept and also gave Darwin his ideas on ages of the earth and gradual processes over time.

I can think of not other geologist that was a confidant of Darwin, though Adam Sedgewick, a geologist, was am early teacher of Darwin. He was a catastrophist though.

1. The adherence of anatomical traits to the nested hierarchies of biology confirms common ancestry in general.

2. Assays of anatomical traits can be used to formulate new phylogenies or refine/confirm existing phylogenies.

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No.

No more than any other man, I suppose. He caused some plants to be harvested for his daily bread, he caused some animals to be killed for his stew, he excreted waste into facilities and ultimately seas and oceans. Perhaps he swatted a few flies and gnats now and again.

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No. Recapitulation theory is the partly discarded notion that the developmental stages of an organism following its conception accurately reflect its evolutionary history.

But while the embryological development of organisms does conform to the nested hierarchies of life and can be used confirm hypotheses about the evolutionary history of life, the statement that it is an exact image of that evolutionary past was discarded some time ago.

"Survival of the fittest" is a phrase originating in evolutionary theory, as an alternative description of natural selection. The phrase is today commonly used in contexts that are incompatible with the original meaning as intended by its first two proponents: British polymath philosopher Herbert Spencer (who coined the term) and Charles Darwin.

I answered a question like this earlier.

It does not. What flood myth? There are many of them and none of them have anything to do with the theory of evolution by natural selection.

About 99.9% of all educated scientists. The field of biology could no longer progress without the understanding of evolution via natural selection.

He is famous for his theory of man's evolution.

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The public, due mostly to religious reasons, was not ready for any transmutational theory and Lamarck's theory had no evidence to support it thus scientists of the time did not pay it much attention. Also Cuvier was Lamarck's enemy and denigrated the theory Lamarck developed.