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Natural Selection And Jenkin's Arguments

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The main aspects of Darwin’s Natural selection is about living organisms with suitable and inheritable traits for the survival and reproduction of new species. Offsprings that inherit better traits have an improve the population. For example; a giraffe will a long neck because it eats from tall trees. It is because of the tall trees( environment) that the Giraffe eventually evolves long neck as a mechanism for survival.
By leaving an impact on their physical and social environment, organisms may affect the evolution of their own descendants, quite apart from changing the conditions for themselves. (Patrick Bateson, 2010)

In this quote, Patrick explains how environmental sustainability is essential for inhabitant and the generations. For …show more content…

In this arrangement, he explained that natural selection by Charles Darwin would average out any beneficial characteristic before selection had time to act. Both Jenkin and Darwin regarded the swamping argument as a barrier to evolution within a single individual. Later, Darwin commented on Jenkins criticism and clarified that natural selection must instead act upon small variations in any given characteristic across all the individuals in the population in order to work. Jenkins work was also criticised by A.S Davis who conclude …show more content…

Overall, Darwin’s observations did not only come with religion and scientific confusion but also opened a way for humanism in western countries. In summary, concepts like overpopulation, competition, genetic variation, natural selection all contributed to evolution one way or another. Genetic variation is essential for evolution because it enables natural selection while maintaining adaptations of organisms to their environment. On the other hand, competition and overpopulation are also important aspects of evolution because overpopulation is also necessary to have variability in different populations while competition is important in structuring ecological communities and agent of natural selection. This essay also looks at is the effect of the Victorian age during the publication of Darwin's book also known as: “The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection” and some of Darwin's critics. In summary, Fleeming Jenkin’s swamping argument is used to explain some notable critics of Darwin’s main principles of evolution: for in social sciences, any valid work needs a critic to ensure its

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