origin of species
Evolution's founding text
Origin of Species is the abbreviated title of Charles Darwin's 1859 book introducing the theory of evolution by natural selection.
The full title is On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
The work fundamentally changed biological science and remains central to evolutionary theory: Have you actually read Origin of Species?
- DarwinBritish naturalist, species theorist
- evolutionSpecies changing over generations
- evolutionary theoryScience of species change
- natural selectionDifferential reproductive success
- survival of the fittestAdaptive advantage perpetuates species
selective pressure · adaptation · common ancestor · Galapagos · finches · HMS Beagle · Beagle · mutation · survival · fittest · descent · descent of man · fossils · biology · heredity · variation · extinction · tree of life
- evolutionevolution, natural selection, mutation, adaptation, fitness
- Faith and Sciencefaith and reason, intelligent design, creationism, creation science, evolution debate
origin of speciescreationism
Divine origin doctrine
intelligent design · divine creation · special creation · spontaneous generation · catastrophism
origin of speciesmass extinction
Large-scale species elimination
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