Charles Darwin and the Theory of Natural Selection. By Edward B. Poulton, &c, Hope Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford. Pp. 224. (London, Paris, and Melbourne: Cassell and Company ...

However, Darwin himself proposed an alternative ... think that sexual selection by mate choice is really a kind of natural selection. So, when they see the peacock’s tail or a beautiful ornament ...

Natural selection, one of the most important theories in biology, was formulated by evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin in the 19th century. The theory can be used to explain the imbalance on a ...

Darwin was not the only nineteenth-century scientist to under-appreciate Mendel's work. Mendel's laws of genetic inheritance were virtually ignored until 1900, when Hugo de Vries, Carl Correns and ...

This process causes species to change and diverge over time. Natural selection is one of the ways to account for the millions of species that have lived on Earth. The Museum’s Library holds the ...

Darwin visited four continents on the ship HMS Beagle. Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection challenged the idea that God made all the animals and plants that live on Earth.

Darwin's engine, natural selection, had few supporters: Many people found it distasteful because it seemed to be ruthless and wasteful of life and had no positive, uplifting goal. Some of the ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection made us rethink our place in the world. The idea that humans shared a common ancestor with apes was a challenge to the foundations of ...

In animals like the noolbenger/honey possum, females are highly promiscuous, forcing males to evolve some impressive anatomical changes. Charles Darwin's work in natural selection was pivotal to our ...

Darwin saw his 500-page book as "one long argument" for the theory of natural selection. "It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, the ...

All viewers of this document can see this public note. This is the most explicit and concise description and definition of natural selection in On the Origin of Species. Darwin’s view here is ...

Darwin returned to England in 1836. A highly methodical scholar, constantly collecting and observing, he spent many years comparing and analysing specimens before finally declaring that evolution ...