Charles Darwin (1809–1882)

Pence, Charles
(2022) Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — ISBN: [9781234567897], published

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Charles Darwin is primarily known as the architect of the theory of evolution by natural selection. With the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, he advanced a view of the development of life on earth that profoundly shaped nearly all biological and much philosophical thought which followed. A number of prior authors had proposed that species were not static and were capable of change over time, but Darwin was the first to argue that a wide variety of features of the biological world could be simultaneously explained if all organisms were descended from a single common ancestor and modified by a process of adaptation to environmental conditions that Darwin christened “natural selection.”
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Pence, C. (2022). Charles Darwin (1809–1882). In Fieser, James ; Dowden, Bradley Harris (eds) (ed.), Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Fieser, J. & Dowden, B. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/224445