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Charles Darwin: Theory of Evolution - Coggle Diagram
Charles Darwin: Theory of Evolution
Creationism
Theory in 1800´s
God created Man, and animals, all who do not change
Natural Selection
Conducted experiments with birds
Bred a lot of birds: human selection, he chose which birds would breed
Concluded -> selection happening in nature which he saw with similar animals but different species
Nature´s selection: Survival of the fittest, who pass on their favorable traits to their offspring
Publication & impact
Encouraged by competition who shared his theory: Alfred Russel Wallis
Published "The origin of the species"
Wanted irrefutable evidence before publishing
Evolution
The process through which various species evolved from a single living organism.
From Darwin´s hypothesis to today´s fact
Darwin´s Journey
HMS Beagle
Expedition: 1831
Collected specimens and fossils
Illustrates and writes thousands of pages on his discoveries
Evidence of Evolution
Galapagos tortoises
Fossils with similarities to current species
Acceptance and Legacy
The church did not agree
2 decades later they accepted the fact
Evolution became a fact
The theory is named after him