Charles Darwin The Father of Ecology! Final Part.

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Let's finish this topic by reading these words.

These conclusions were the principle of natural selection, the terms of

the Darwinian Theor, but with typical caution, he delayed publication

of his hypothesis. However, in 1858 Alfred Wallace sent Darwin a letter

of his book, the Malay Archipelago, which, to Darwin's surprise, contained

the main ideas of his own theory of natural selection. Lyell and Joseph

Hooker persuaded him to submit a paper of his own, based on his 1844

sketch, which was read simultaneously! sly with Wallace's before the

Linnean Society in 1858. Neither Darwin nor Wallace was present on

that historic occasion.

Darwin then set to work to condense his vast mass of notes and

put into shape his great work, The Origin of Species by Means of

Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the

Struggle for Life, published in 1859. This great work, received

throughout Europe with the deepest interest, was violently attacked

because it did not agree with the account of creation given in

the Book of Genesis. But eventually, it succeeded in obtaining recognition

from almost all biologists.

Darwin, contrary to popular belief, never said that human beings

evolved from apes. He said that all life began as a primordial soup,

with molecules acting on each other. So from the first single-celled

an organism, all life came. One single organism, when acted on by several

different molecules could give rise to many different species of animals.

It is in this way that he stated that Ape and man were similar... each having

a similar life's beginning. Darwin died after a long illness, leaving eight

children, several of whom achieved great distinction. Though not the

sole originator of the evolution hypotheses or even the first to apply

the concept of descent too.

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