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Parent topics
- Charles Darwin [r]: (1809 – 1882) English natural scientist, most famous for proposing the theory of natural selection. [e]
- Genetics [r]: The study of the inheritance of characteristics, genes and DNA. [e]
- Evolution [r]: A change over time in the proportions of individual organisms differing genetically. [e]
Subtopics
- Adaptation [r]: Describes the event of a trait being selected by the mechanism of natural selection. [e]
- Natural selection [r]: The differential survival and/or reproduction of classes of entities that differ in one or more characteristics [e]
- Selective breeding [r]: Process of breeding plants and animals for particular genetic traits and desirable characteristics. [e]
- Creationism [r]: The belief that the world and the universe were created by God. [e]
- Species (biology) [r]: A fundamental unit of biological classification - a set of individual organisms that produce fertile offspring. [e]
- Social Darwinism [r]: Efforts to draw political conclusions from the theory of evolution by natural selection. [e]
- Voyage of the Beagle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Alfred Russel Wallace [r]: (1823 – 1913) British explorer and naturalist, discovered the principle of natural selection independently of Darwin. [e]
- Charles Lyell [r]: Scottish geologist (1797-1875) credited with having popularized uniformitarianism as well as his belief that science and religion should be kept separate. [e]