English naturalist, geologist, and biologist Charles Darwin employed the term to show how successfully adapted organisms achieve better survival rates through reproduction with trait inheritance ...

While it head-butted his theory of natural selection, Darwin emerged with the theory of sexual selection as a way to ...

Out of that unforgiving battle, some would survive and many would not, as famine, disease, and war put a ceiling on the growth in population. These ideas galvanized Darwin's thinking about the ...

Selfishness aids survival but requires balance in society. While modern life rewards both selfish and cooperative behaviors, ethical self-interest can foster personal growth.

Darwin has generally overshadowed Wallace’s contributions, however. In natural selection, genetic mutations that are beneficial to an individual’s survival are passed on through reproduction. This ...

many more individuals are born than could possibly survive...” – Darwin underscores the vast excess of reproduction. “...individuals having any advantage, however slight...would have the ...

Natural selection explains how this evolution has happened: More organisms are produced than can survive because of limited resources. Organisms struggle for the necessities of life; there is ...

Darwin visited four continents on the ship HMS ... characteristics most suited to the environment are more likely to survive to breed successfully the characteristics that have enabled these ...