The theory of evolution The theory of evolution
Many may have already heard the term evolution. What is evolution? How does it work? This subject is covered in this article.
The first man who thought he knew how evolution really works, was the 1744 French-born Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet. He believed that evolution operates under the principle of adaptation. One example that he was invented as the development of venison to the giraffe. He suspected that the deer had too short a neck to reach high tree tops. So the animal to fit easily. The neck was so long. The descendants of these first giraffe inherited the long neck and then spread out the long-necked animals. This example, whether true or not, is one example of many dozens.
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de Monet was just one of the Evoutionshelden.
Evolution only reached its peak but only with another man, namely Charles Darwin. It was 1809 in England born and worked as a scientist. He learned the meaning and the functioning of evolution. But until then, it took a while. In this way he made many other hypotheses in question, the people fathomed before him. He created a lot of followers ... but also many enemies who called themselves believers creation or creationists.
When Darwin was an unknown researcher still, he looked rather beetles and insects, as the evolution that not even employed him. After completing his studies at age 22, he took part in a five-year expedition, which also took him to the Galapagos Islands. The ship as a passenger he andem went on board, was the 30 m long "Beagle" with 74 crew members, so it was very close to the ship. Above all, the captain - who shared with Darwin a Kapine - suffered major agoraphobia, because the cabin had already become the home of Darwin and herumkriechenden herumschwirrenden insects that had collected his passenger at the airport.
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something about the expedition can not find very beneficial. He suffered from seasickness
... And then get on the ship the most memorable moments of the theory of evolution. Darwin turned namely, a seemingly unimportant question. He wanted to fathom why the giant Galapagos turtles, whose meat they ate, they all had a different pattern on the tank. Un it iel in the scales from your eyes. He had a theory. He suspected that had formed long before the people a turtle. Part of living on the mainland, the other on the Galapagos Islands. Both parts were now living, but under different conditions. Everyone adapts to its environment. The giant tortoises could perhaps due to their smallness can not survive. They were larger. Darwin was a Win Theorievöllig safe and returned back to England, lost in thought.
Darwin came to the assumption that had formed long ago from the four fins of fish, four legs. That was the evolution, he supposed. And then he also suspected the man had been formed from the apes. Un he summed up all his findings and wrote a book, "Origin of Species", before it did Afred Russel Wallace, who had the Theoie of Matches as Darwin, was un fossil collectors, and sold them to museums.
The book attracted much attention and was chosen a best seller ... But criticism came towards Darwin. The evolutionists - Darwin's followers - often came together with the creationists.
died in 1882 in Darwin criticism and admiration. He had but left a great life's work.
