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  2. Portraits of Charles Darwin - Wikipedia

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    According to historian Janet Browne, Darwin's capacity to commission photographs of himself—and their widespread reproduction as carte de visite and cabinet card photographs—helped to cement the lasting connection between Darwin and the theory of evolution in popular thought (largely to the exclusion of the many others who also contributed ...

  3. Caricatures of Charles Darwin and his evolutionary theory in ...

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    The fact that the ape-like Darwin is holding the mirror and not the real ape shows that Darwin and his theory should be ridiculed. Darwin himself has acknowledged that "[he] has given man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality." [7] Consequently, the ape is not enhanced in status through his kinship with man.

  4. Darwinism - Wikipedia

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    Charles Darwin in 1868. Darwinism is a term used to describe a theory of biological evolution developed by the English naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882) and others. The theory states that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual's ability to compete, survive, and reproduce.

  5. 'Oldest living thing' on earth discovered and it may prove ...

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    Scientists have identified the oldest living species on Earth is a deep sea organism that hasn't evolved in more than two billion years. And, it may prove Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution. A ...

  6. On the Origin of Species - Wikipedia

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    Modern evolutionary theory continues to develop. Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, with its tree-like model of branching common descent, has become the unifying theory of the life sciences. The theory explains the diversity of living organisms and their adaptation to the environment.

  7. Charles Darwin - Wikipedia

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    Darwin published his theory of evolution with compelling evidence in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] By the 1870s, the scientific community and a majority of the educated public had accepted evolution as a fact .

  8. Tree of life (biology) - Wikipedia

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    The tree of life or universal tree of life is a metaphor, conceptual model, and research tool used to explore the evolution of life and describe the relationships between organisms, both living and extinct, as described in a famous passage in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859).

  9. Natural selection - Wikipedia

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    In 1859, Charles Darwin set out his theory of evolution by natural selection as an explanation for adaptation and speciation. He defined natural selection as the "principle by which each slight variation [of a trait], if useful, is preserved". [17]