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Charles Darwin's Theory Of Natural Selection

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What is the accumulation of all of Charles Darwin’s work. Charles Darwin was born to Robert and Susannah Darwin. He was a scientist who studied the natural world. His life was long and full of research on animals. Charles Darwin studies natural science early in life, he travels later in life, and he has a theory on natural selection. Darwin’s young adult life was the beginning of his journey into natural science. When he was going to the Edinburgh Medical School Darwin ignores his studies on human medicine, and instead learns about natural science. He is taught about taxidermy, which is the process of preserving animals. He also learns about marine invertebrates’ life cycle and anatomy with Robert Edmond. Darwin also studies about …show more content…

When Darwin returns to England he spends some of his years traveling from university to University, talking to the people there about their collections, and his own findings. He also travels from place to place collecting information from other naturalists and their collections. Darwin also talks to them about his study on mockingbirds, which inspired the theory that “one species does become the other”. He changes his theory, when he learns that the mockingbirds he had collected were variants of the same specie. That had adapted to best survive their environments. He changes his theory on the transmutation of species to the theory of natural selection. By mid December Darwin saw some farmers picking the best animals for breeding and saw a similarity to a Malthusian nature of selecting from chance variants so that “every part of newly acquired structure is fully practical and perfect”. Darwin called his process of natural selection an analogy to artificial selection. His theory of natural selection is that nature chooses what animal survive and what animal dies. But what Darwin saw was similar, in the fact that humans were selecting the best variants of animals from the rest and artificially selecting who would survive and who would die. This would make it the artificial selection of the perfect

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