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The biological revolution that Darwin initiated has given us a view of an earth that was once devoid of life and where life originated and evolved from simpler pre-existing forms over immense periods of time. Darwin saw human beings as an integral part of this evolutionary history. How, when and where life originated remains an inscrutable challenge to science. However, discoveries in every branch...
Year 2009 is being celebrated as the bicentenary of British naturalist Charles Robert Darwin’s birth as well as 150 years of his book “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life” in short “On the Origin of Species”. Darwin is hailed as one of the greatest scientist who put forth the theory of gradual evolution and branching...
Even after 200 years after his birth, Charles Robert Darwin and his work are still central to any discussion on evolution. What is the relevance of evolution as Darwin perceived it? What were the pre-Darwinian, Darwinian and post-Darwinian pictures? Among the ancient pre-Darwinian theories Aristotle’s ‘Scala Naturale’ and the ‘Special Creation’ theory are perhaps the most important, whereas Lamark’s...
JBS Haldane (1892–1964) was a polymath, a great scientist who made important contributions to multiple sciences such as Physiology, Genetics, Biochemistry, Statistics, Biometry, Cosmology and philosophy, even though he did not possess an academic degree in any science. His most important contribution to science was the mathematical theory of evolution which combined the evolutionary process defined...
Charles Darwin’s insights into evolution of biological life are perhaps the most significant contributions in the realm of human existence. There have been many other startling scientific discoveries, and indeed many are yet to come, but arguably none have caused such intense, visceral reactions in mankind like Darwinian ideas. Nearly a century and a half after the unbiblical Origin of Species appeared,...
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