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Artificial Selection & Rise of Human Race

When their food sources depleted our ancestors moved to areas where they would have access to meat and vegetation. It was thanks to agriculture humans could settle in, which irreversibly changed the course of history.

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Is Darwinism Racist?

English biologist Charles Darwin was a European man of his time. Like many of his peers, he was under the impression that white men were inherently superior to women and people of color. Does the worldview of Darwin say anything about his theory and today's evolutionary biology?

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How Darwin Discovered Evolution

Today the theory of evolution is a complex body of theory supported by other branches of science. In other words, we do not need the theory of evolution to know that evolution is a fact. However, in the mid-nineteenth century, the world was different.

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Irish Potato Famine, and Why Natural Failed

The Irish Potato Famine, also called the great famine, was a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland from 1845 to 1852. The great famine claimed one million lives and caused millions to flee their country. In the aftermath…

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Evolutionary Theory

Evolution theory, also known as evolutionary theory, or the theory of evolution, is based on the idea that all life on earth is related and gradually changes over time. The theory primarily explains the ongoing speciation of life since its emergence on Earth.

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Why Evolution Is More Than Just A Theory

In the second of the nineteenth century a fierce debate broke in the scientific community about Darwin's theory of evolution. However, by the twentieth century the debate was over.

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Are All of Our Characteristics Evolutionary Adaptations?

Natural selection says only the fit will surprise. The fit are those that have the inherited traits that help them best adapt to their habitat so that they live long enough to have and raise their offspring. Does this mean all of the inheritable traits of organisms ultimately serve one purpose: improve the adaptation of the organisms to their environments?

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If We Evolved from Monkeys Why Are There Still Monkeys?

After the publication of "On the Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin, Evolution through natural selection was rather quickly adopted by scientists. However, in its infancy scientists imagined evolution as linear and progressive. The early expectation in scientific communities was that modern humans evolved from existing ape populations gradually and that there had to be fossil evidence that links humans to apes.

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Who Was Charles Darwin?

Charles Darwin is the first human who made people aware of their place in the evolutionary process, which directly or indirectly helped develop many scientific and humanist ideas

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