The term Evolution that is prescribed to the origins of life was a monumental endowment of Charles Darwin (1809-1882). ... Nonetheless, Darwin continued with the research that Lamarck had begun and in doing so revolutionized the world in biology and staged the scientific discovery of evolution and the origins of life. ... Darwin and his predecessor, Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), would transcend the term evolution to mean "natural selection" (Waggoner, 1996). ... Before we go into the term macroevolution, it is important to discuss the aspect of a one-cell microorganism, which...

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"Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection ended once and for all Man's status as a special creation placed in an unchanging Great Chain of Being.... During the scientific revolution, where the separation from religion and the study of humanity began and new developments in physics and astronomy emerged, the author notes how Darwin's revolution opened scientific exploration further into the areas of geology and biology. ...

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