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Thu 02 Feb 2009Understanding his big idea, the process of natural selection
UNDER THE MICROSCOPE:TODAY MARKS the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin. Darwin’s discoveries had a profound influence on the modern world, more so than the ideas of any other scientist. Darwin’s big discovery was natural selection, which explains design in the living world, the origin of species and is the driving force behind evolution. Darwin also explained that man is descended from an ape-like animal – a most uncomfortable idea at the time.
In today’s article, I will describe the theory that Darwin proposed and next week I will describe the influence this theory has on the modern world.
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