Question

What are Darwin's contributions?

Answer 1

Charles Darwin:

1. Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist who lived in England.
2. His scientific hypothesis of evolution by natural selection created the framework of current evolutionary research.

Contributions of Darwin:

The idea of natural selection:

1. Species continue to evolve or change throughout time.
2. The needs of an organism vary as the environment changes, and they adapt to the new environment.
3. Adaptation is the process of modifying through time to meet natural requirements.
4. According to Darwin's theory, the organisms that adapt to the environment survive, while that organism that finds it difficult to adapt, is not selected by the environment, and hence, they die.
5. His theories explained convergent and divergent theories of evolution, all organisms were derived from the same ancestors, and these organisms diverge and new species are formed.
6. Evolution, according to Darwin, maybe a slow and gradual process.
7. He came to the conclusion that evolution took place over a very long length of time.
8. When we talk about the length of time in evolution, we normally think in terms of billions of years.
9. A long length of time is required to generate a species from another.
10. Because the alterations and adaptations take a long time to consolidate and give rise to a replacement species, it is a very slow process.