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THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION OR DARWINISM

  • Theory of CharIes Darwin (1809 - 1882) about evolution marks the beginning of an era in understanding of evolution.
  • At the age of 22 he led the expedition tour on H.M.S.Beagle (1831), studied variety of flora and fauna from different parts of globe, but found Galapagos Island most interesting, a "living laboratory of evolution".
  • Earlier a believer of "theory of special creation", Darwin propounded Natural Selection as basis of evolution and all organisms including man have arisen as modified descendants.
  • He was influenced by the ideas of

(i)         T.R. Malthus (1799)                    -          An Essay on Population

(ii)        Charles Lyell (1832)                  -          Principles of Geology

(iii)       Herbert Spencer (1856)              -          Idea of Survival of fittest

  • Later with the help of Lyell and Hooker Darwin published (1859) his complete book "Origin of New Species by Natural Selection" : "The Preservation of Races in the Struggle for Life".
  • Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 - 19130) investigated the flora and fauna of South East Asia and South America.
  • He came to conclusion which was supported by Darwin in the paper "On the tendency of varieties to depart independently from the original type."
  • Darwin and Wallace therefore produced a joint proper "On the tendency of species to fonn varieties and perpetua- tion of varieties and species and mans of natural selection."
  • In 1859, Darwin explained the theory of evolution in the back "On the origin of species by means of natural selection" popularly called origin of species.
  • The origin of species (1859) holds an impressive amount of evidences in support of evolution by natural selection.

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