Charles Darwin's Theory Of Evolution And Natural Selection

1859. The year in which Charles Darwin shocked the world. The year the famous biologist and naturalist came up with the daring theory of evolution and natural selection. A theory that is said to be one of the smartest ideas ever and generations ahead of its time. It changed science in unexplainable ways. Charles Darwin was born in 1809 and came out with his theory of evolution and natural selection through his landmark work, The Origin of Species in 1859. He died in 1882 but people today still marvel and work on proving Darwin’s theory. Natural selection can be defined as the process in which species change their traits and genes to increase their chances of survival in their environment. The population produces these traits to better suit

So, the Red Devil Cichlid fish, the Tomcod fish living in the Hudson River, and the lizards on the Iron Cay Island all produced similar traits in their population to increase their chance of survival. In all three articles, experiments were done researching how each species develops traits to help their population survive in an environment. The claim says that certain traits are more common in the population because they increase an individual's chances of survival which is exactly what each animal that was studied, did. This connects to Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection, that in each generation more animals of the species are produced that can better survive. Look at the lizards from Iron Cay island. In each generation throughout the years, more lizards were reproduced to have shorter limbs which better suited them in their environment on the island. Natural Selection helps with the idea of survival of the fittest, increasing species and individual’s chances of survival by changing their genes. If species cannot adapt through generations they will not survive in their environment, which includes nature, animals, and even