All viewers of this document can see this public note. This is the most explicit and concise description and definition of natural selection in On the Origin of Species. Darwin’s view here is ...

For a summary of these models ... Systematics and the Origin of Species. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1942. Mayr, E. Animal Species and Evolution. Harvard, MA: Harvard University ...

Darwin kept silent for 20 years before going public and was only half joking when he described writing his book 'On the Origin of Species' as 'like confessing a murder'. This is the story of one ...

Charles Darwin close Charles DarwinAn English naturalist (1809-1882). In 1859 Darwin published On the Origin of Species, which outlined his theory of evolution. was an English naturalist who ...

These facts seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species -- that mystery of mysteries ... and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions ...

Each is a member of a family of birds called honeycreepers, and they all share the same common ancestor: a single finchlike species that scientists estimate arrived on the Hawaiian Islands about 5 ...