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Darwin's Theory Of Natural Selection

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Explanation of the concept of natural selection and how it takes place
Natural selection is the notion that all forms of life have ultimately from a single common ancestor. Darwin argued about how “all the organic beings which have ever lived on this Earth have been descended from some primordial form.”
Darwin introduced the process of natural selection; this is a process that acted on random variations in the traits of organisms and their offspring. The theory of universal common descent postulated a pattern also known as the branching tree, which represents the history of life.
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George-Louis Buffon (1707-1778) Suggested that life was older than 6000 years (creationism theory) and that those organisms had changed over time.
Carolus Unnaeus (1707-1770) Created the binomial naming system. He suggested that organisms could change through hybridisation; by grouping organisms together he could show their similarities.
Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802)
(grandfather of Charles Darwin) Erasmus suggested that the strongest and most active individuals would survive and continue a species.
Jean-Baptist Lamarck (1744-1829) Lamarck suggested features acquired during the life of an organism could be passed on to its offspring.
James Hutton (1726-1797) Suggested geological change happens over a gradual period of time.
Cuvier (1769-1832) Documented fossils in rock strata and noted that each layer was characterised by different types of fossils. He also noted that extinctions were common and that fossils in deeper layers were the most different from modern species.
Charles Lyell (1797-1875) Suggested geological processes occurred at the same rate in the present as they did in the past (theory of

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