Essay Archive - Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
Charles Ellis
Charles Darwin was a man of incomprehensible genius. He proposed
theories that changed the views of the origin of mankind, as well as, the
beginning of life on earth and the continual evolution of advanced forms of
life. Other great scientists such as Galileo and Aristotle influenced many
of Darwin's theories and statements. With the publication of Darwin's
"Origin of Species" in 1859 and the subsequent acceptance of evolution by
natural selection, patterns in nature were recognized as the outcome of
common descent, not divine creation. Darwin wrote to his friend and
colleague Thomas Huxely: "The time....
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