The essay explores lessons from Darwinian natural history for a theory of human history and human society, of a non-biologistic and non-Social-Darwinist kind. It looks in particular at the differences ...

Between 1831 and 1836, Charles Darwin circumnavigated the globe as the naturalist for the renowned HMS Beagle. Darwin's task, as far as Britain was concerned, was to discover and describe flora and ...

The genesis of Charles Darwin's book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (1859) is well known, and the changes that ...

The theory of evolution by natural selection was first formulated in Darwin’s book “On the Origin of Species” in 1859. It describes how organisms change over time as a result of changes in heritable ...

Today, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species is recognized as one of the greatest books in scientific history, but when it was initially published, the broad reaction was hostile. Laypersons in ...

Introduction. Definition of natural selection ; Relationship to genetic drift and evolution ; Restricted meanings of "natural selection" ; Modes of selection ; Summary -- Philosophical comments.

Natural selection is the process by which some organisms in a population survive and reproduce, while others do not, based on their bodies and behaviour. It is one of the processes by which species ...

II. NEXT, let it be observed that we cannot expect to meet with much direct evidence of physiological selection from our domesticated varieties. For, first, breeders and horticulturists keep their ...

The Big Ideas: What Is History? Through the ages, human survival has depended on our ability to cultivate and preserve plant diversity. By Cary Fowler Cary Fowler is an agriculturalist and a founder ...