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Mental shift in the thought processes surrounding science
in the 1850s, the majority of the philosophers and scientists were Christian men so every new principle that Darwin stood by, completely stood against what was known at the time. The belief that the world itself was inhabited by an all powerful God went against everything Darwin stood for and led to the removal of God from science. -
Typology VS Population Thinking
Darwin also rejected Typology; that members from certain classes were thought to be almost identical and constant and it created an inaccurate picture of human races. Population Thinking, on the other hand, depicts that all human beings are different. Every single of one them. -
Contribution to Philosophy of Science
Darwin helped facilitate the Philosophy of Biology as a whole. He started by bringing historicity into Evolutionary Science. Darwinism also became the basic principal to Philosophy in Science. -
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Accepting Evolution as a Precedence
Charles Darwin wrote "The Origin of Species" in 1859 when he went in search of answers to how species change and evolve over time. His initial inquisitive theory was if eggs and seeds could travel across the seas to spread species. Through several years of research, Darwin came to his theory of natural selection or "survival of the fittest," stating essentially that too many species are being born and only a select amount is going to be able to survive, therefore changing the survivors to live. -
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Other works
Darwin completed "The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication" as a way to explain heredity in plants and animals. In his pursuit to help expand upon the fact that humans are apes set by Charles Lyell, Darwin wrote "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals" which compared human psychology to animal behaviors. -
Caricature Depicting Darwin as the father of evolutionary theory
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Dual Nature of Biological Processes
Most biological activities are governed by both the laws of chemistry as well as the laws of physics and by a genetic program, directly resulting in natural selection
