5+-+Darwin

=__**Charles Darwin (1809-18820**__= By: Erica Weber and Alyssa Palsis


 * __**Theories about evolution of humankind**__
 * from highher primates (apes)
 * aroused much controversy
 * __**Challenged Western theories of humankind**__
 * "The Newton of Biology"- On the Origin of Species (1859)
 * __**Natural Selection**__
 * explained how species evolve over time
 * more organisms come into existence than more can survive
 * survival of the fittest (naturalistic and mechanistic)
 * didn't explain where orginal organisms came from
 * **__Worked with Alfred Russey Wallace__**
 * independently worked, but they both shared the same ideas
 * **__Contradicted Biblical stories and undermined deistic argument for God__**
 * ideas of constant change led to believe that society,values,customs and beliefs can too
 * **__1871: The Descent of Man__**
 * applied principle of natural selection to human beigns
 * humankind's moral, religious and physical sentiments developed naturalistically in response to survival requirements
 * his ideas didn't require the existence of God
 * criticism from religious and scientific communities
 * wasn't fully accepted until combined with modern gentics in 1930s
 * __**Survival of t**____**he Fittest**__
 * philosophies applied it to human social relationships
 * Herber and Spencer and other advocates of evolutionary ethics (Huxley
 * ____**Social darwinis**____

Adeline Morgan
= Charles Darwin- (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry. 1859 book // On the Origin of Species //theory of natural selection. Darwin started on his famous voyage on December 27, 1831. Despite having Seasickness Darwin circumnavigated the world in his ship the Beagle. Darwin took frequent notes on every specimen he collected and sent back to Cambridge. he not only studied animal specimens, but also insects, rocks, plants, land formations, fossils, and much more. His first specimen was plankton, which he collected in a clam shell. Darwin even interacted with indigenous tribes of the areas he studied, including the Australian aborigines, which he claims were "good-humored & pleasant". One of Charles’s most famous notes is on the Galapagos island finches (we all learned about it in Biology last year!), which talks about Darwin's famous natural selection theory. =