Charles Darwin
British naturalist (1809 to 1882), born in Shrewsbury; sailed as naturalist on the five-year voyage of HMS Beagle from 1831; author of On the Origin of Species.
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Species are not fixed: species of the same genus descend from other, mostly extinct, species
I am fully convinced that species are not immutable; but that those belonging to what are called the same genera are lineal descendants of some other and generally extinct species, in the same manner as the acknowledged varieties of any one species are the descendants of that species.
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Species are not fixed: species of the same genus descend from other, mostly extinct, species
I am fully convinced that species are not immutable; but that those belonging to what are called the same genera are lineal descendants of some other and generally extinct species, in the same manner as the acknowledged varieties of any one species are the descendants of that species.
On the Origin of Species (first edition, 1859) Said 1 Oct 1859
Natural selection has been the main, but not the only, means by which species change
Furthermore, I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.
On the Origin of Species (first edition, 1859) Said 1 Oct 1859
Because living things multiply so fast, a struggle for existence inevitably follows
A struggle for existence inevitably follows from the high rate at which all organic beings tend to increase.
On the Origin of Species (first edition, 1859) Said 1 Oct 1859
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The fossil record is a very incomplete history of life, of which only fragments survive
For my part, following out Lyell’s metaphor, I look at the natural geological record, as a history of the world imperfectly kept, and written in a changing dialect; of this history we possess the last volume alone, relating only to two or three countries.
On the Origin of Species (first edition, 1859) Said 1 Oct 1859
Natural selection can make no great or sudden change; it acts only by very short, slow steps
As natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight, successive, favourable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very short and slow steps.
On the Origin of Species (first edition, 1859) Said 1 Oct 1859
Animals descend from at most four or five ancestors, and analogy hints at one ancestor for all life, though analogy may mislead
I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number. Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants have descended from some one prototype. But analogy may be a deceitful guide.
On the Origin of Species (first edition, 1859) Said 1 Oct 1859
This theory will give psychology a new foundation and throw light on the origin of humans
In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.
On the Origin of Species (first edition, 1859) Said 1 Oct 1859
There is grandeur in a view of life in which endless beautiful forms evolved from a simple beginning
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
On the Origin of Species (first edition, 1859) Said 1 Oct 1859
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