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Evolution
Lesson: CHARLES DARWIN
Overview:
A look at the life and times of Charles Darwin.
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Charles Darwin
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Charles Darwin was born in England
on February 12, 1809.
His family was educated
and well to do (his
grandfather was the maker
of Wedgwood china).
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Darwin studied medicine at Edinburgh
University but later switched to divinity
at Cambridge.
Edinburgh University
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In 1831, he joined a 5 year scientific
expedition on the survey ship
HMS Beagle as their geologist.
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The voyage was quite extensive…
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At that time, the majority of the
population in Europe believed that
God had created the world in 7 days,
as described in the Bible.
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The idea of evolution had been
around for a long time (even
before Darwin) and most people
(including Darwin) dismissed it
due to several reasons:
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•The lack of a real need
(was such a theory really needed?)
•insufficient time to accomplish
significant change
(given the supposed 6000 years of
Earth history, based on theological
interpretations)
•lack of any real mechanism that
might drive evolutionary change
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While on the Beagle, Darwin read a book
called “Principles of Geology” by
Charles Lyell.
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Lyell suggested that the fossils found in
rocks were actually evidence of animals
that had lived many thousands or
millions of years ago.
Lyell's argument was reinforced in
Darwin's own mind by the rich variety of
animal life and the geological features
he saw during his voyage.
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The breakthrough in his ideas came in the
Galapagos Islands, 500 miles west of
South America.
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Darwin noticed that
each island
supported its own
form of finch which
were closely
related but differed
in important ways.
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On his return to England in
1836, Darwin tried to solve
the riddles of these
observations and the puzzle
of how species could evolve.
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Thomas Malthus
Another scholar of the
time, Thomas Malthus,
studied populations and
had a great impact on
Darwin’s understanding
of finches, other
organisms, and his
theory of evolution.
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Malthus believed that given unlimited resources, a
population would grow exponentially.
Under normal conditions, a natural population would be
limited by food, water, habitat, etc. resulting in a balancing
of population numbers.
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Influenced by the ideas of
Malthus, Darwin proposed a
theory of evolution occurring by
the process of natural selection.
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The animals (or plants) best suited to their
environment are more likely to survive and
reproduce, passing on the characteristics
which helped them survive to their offspring.
Gradually, the species changes over time.
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Darwin worked on his
theory for 20 years.
After learning that
another naturalist,
Alfred Russel Wallace,
had developed similar
ideas, the two made a
joint announcement of
their discovery in 1858.
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In 1859 Darwin published
The Origin of Species
by Means of Natural Selection'.
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The book was extremely controversial,
because the logical extension of Darwin's
theory was that Homo sapiens was simply
another form of animal.
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Charles Darwin died on
April 19,1882 and was
buried in Westminster
Abbey alongside Sir
Isaac Newton.