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The question of how man evolved has been pondered since man first stepped foot on this planet. Many great philosophers and explorers have made attempts to try to answer this question. Charles Darwin was one of these people. Darwin led a full life of exploration, and during these adventures, he accumulated much information about evolution. He met many explorers that had various ideas of their own about how man evolved. In discussion with these people, he figured out if what they were telling him was fact or fiction. This helped him to formulate his own theory. Curiosity was aroused in Darwin at a very young age. He was one of those children that are always into things, trying to find out how things work. He was especially interested in the outdoors. He was a very smart child, but his father, Robert Waring Darwin II, didn't think so. "Darwin had a youth unmarked by the slightest trace of genius." (Rachels,7). This didn't stop Darwin, though. He never lost this curiosity throughout the years. At the age of 18, he made a very important discovery about flustra, which is "1. That the ova of the Flustra possess organs of motion and 2. That the small black globular body hithero mistaken for the young Fucus lorious is in
Darwin didn't discover survival of the fittest, though. It was actually discovered by a scientist who was also trying to explain evolution. His name was Alfred Wallace. He wasn't getting much success with his ideas so he teamed up with Darwin. They combined their ideas and together came up with something that worked. Darwin used their ideas to write a book. This book is called "The Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection." And it became a very successful book. Darwin's theory had a profound impact on man's perspective of evolution. Darwin's theory came as a shock to common, everyday people. Not many people believed that Darwin's idea were true, at first. Some were even angry with Darwin for even implying that their superior being didn't exist. As time on, though, people started to realize that his ideas actually made sense. Some started to accept his ideas, others didn't. They were sticking to their beliefs. Darwinism still isn't proven as the beginning of man, but there are people that believe it is. This theory seems very logical, and even though there's no real way to prove that it's actually the beginning of man, Darwin did find a lot of information that has been very helpful to scientists. Scientists have found many ways to use his information to broaden evolutionary horizons. Darwinism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. descendants of common ancestors, 'modified',
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