During his time at Christ's College, Camberidge when he was studying theology he loved to collect plants, insects, and geological specimens, guided by his cousin William Darwin Fox, and entomologist. ... The most famous that Charles Darwin had was "Survival of the Fittest", which meant, The basis of the Darwinian Theory of Evolution is that the members of a population with the sets of characteristics which are most suitable for the local environment are the ones who are most likely to survive to have greater numbers of offspring. Thus those characteristics suited to the local environment ...

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God introduced vegetation in the form of plants and trees to the newly created dry land called earth. ... Reading one translation based through the Elohist source would show strong characteristics of a God that you should fear. ... The meaning of this is a deity with more human characteristics. ...

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Lamarck's theory included inheritance of acquired characteristics, meaning that an organism's lifestyle could bring about changes that it passed on to its offspring. ... Darwin observed that wild animals and plants showed variations just as domesticated animals and plants did. He filled his notebooks with records of height, weight, color, claw size, tail length, and other characteristics among members of the same species. ... Plant stems grow tall in search of sunlight, plant roots grow deep into the soil in search of water and nutrients. ...

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After the catastrophist event plant and animal life were the created individually and immutable. ... During the journey aboard the Beagle Darwin noted that certain animals and plants alleged to be extinct had remarkable likenesses to other living creature he had observed in the area. ... Additional he noted that there were physical marks and or characteristics that could be an indicator that an individual was atavistic. ...

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Evolution is the natural process through which organism have acquired their characteristics, structure and function. The past few centuries have witnessed a thorough inventory of the million or more species of plants and animals living today, as well as the thousands of extinct species. ... How can the many similarities and differences among plants and animals be explained? ...

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I)Darwin's Dilemma A)Darwin set sail on December 27, 1831 for a cruise around the world 1)He was well educated and had a strong interest in natural history 2)He also had keen powers of observation and an analytical mind 3)Each place he went he collected animal and plant specimens to his collection (a)He examined his specimens and filled notebooks with his observations B)Throughout the voyage he witnessed countless wonders of nature 1)He demanded explanations for these wonders II)The Diversity of Life A)When Darwin visited tropical South America he saw countless species 1)In one ...

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He pointed out the existence of variations differences among members of the same species and suggested that the variations that prove helpful to a plant or an animal in its struggle for existence better enable it to survive and reproduce. ... As originally formulated, Darwinism did not distinguish between acquired characteristics, which are not transmissible by heredity, and genetic variations, which are inheritable. ...

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Drought diminishes supplies of easily cracked nuts but permits the survival of plants that produce larger, tougher nuts. ... Over time, their descendants will tend to increase, changing the average characteristics of the population. ...

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Aboard the Beagle, Darwin realized that some of his own observations of fossils and living plants and animals cast doubt on some accepted scientific theories. ... The reasons that scientists want to study the evolution of humans are so that we can understand human diseases, traits and characteristics better and to make predictions as to how humans will evolve in the future. ...

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Social Darwinism and Eugenics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are often seen as theories based on scientific knowledge. However this is not wholly true. While eugenics was often loosely based on scientific theory, social Darwinism was not at all. One would be hard-pressed to find any science in social Darwinist thought. After reviewing the current literature on social Darwinism it is not clear that there was a cohesive movement of social Darwinism in America at all. ...

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