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ELApro: /* Quotes */JM Smith, 'The Problems of Biology' (1986) p. 7: Darwin's theory predicts..parts adapted to ensure..survival & reproduction. life..defined..properties..to ensure evolution by natural selection..multiplication, variation, & heredity..[E]ntities lacking one or more..are not alive

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Quotes: JM Smith, 'The Problems of Biology' (1986) p. 7: Darwin's theory predicts..parts adapted to ensure..survival & reproduction. life..defined..properties..to ensure evolution by natural selection..multiplication, variation, & heredity..[E]ntities lacking one or more..are not alive

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	* Natural selection tends to sculpt a species to fit its environment and lifestyle and can create new species from existing ones. The end result is the diversity of life classified into the three domains of life.		* Natural selection tends to sculpt a species to fit its environment and lifestyle and can create new species from existing ones. The end result is the diversity of life classified into the three domains of life.
	** Sylvia S. Mader, ''Biology'' (10th ed., 2010), Ch. 1. A View of Life		** Sylvia S. Mader, ''Biology'' (10th ed., 2010), Ch. 1. A View of Life

			* Тhе сепtгаl роіпt геmаіпs that [[Charles Darwin\|Darwin]] provided a theory which predicts that organisms should have parts adapted to ensure their [[survival]] and {{w\|reproduction}}. This has led to the suggestion that [[life]] should be defined by the possession of those properties which are needed to ensure [[evolution]] by natural selection. That is, entities with the properties of multiplication, [[w:Genetic variation\|variation]], and {{w\|heredity}} are alive, and entities lacking one or more of those properties are not.
			** [[John Maynard Smith]], ''The Problems of Biology'' (1986) p. 7.

	* Here we are after a couple million years of natural selection has produced a race that overpopulates and makes [[war]] and dominates and rapes, and you want to know about [[wisdom]]! Natural selection doesn’t select for wisdom!		* Here we are after a couple million years of natural selection has produced a race that overpopulates and makes [[war]] and dominates and rapes, and you want to know about [[wisdom]]! Natural selection doesn’t select for wisdom!

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	* Here we are after a couple million years of natural selection has produced a race that overpopulates and makes [[war]] and dominates and rapes, and you want to know about [[wisdom]]! Natural selection doesn’t select for wisdom!		* Here we are after a couple million years of natural selection has produced a race that overpopulates and makes [[war]] and dominates and rapes, and you want to know about [[wisdom]]! Natural selection doesn’t select for wisdom!
	** [[Sheri S. Tepper]], ''Gibbon's Decline & Fall'' (1996), Chapter 11		** [[Sheri S. Tepper]], ''Gibbon's Decline & Fall'' (1996), Chapter 11

			* Natural selection. So much of bird life and behaviour—from the bright colours, to the hypnotic or downright peculiar meeting displays, to the songs—revolves around their need to procreate, to demonstrate the fitness of their genes.
			** Julia Zarankin, ''Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder'' (2020), <small> {{ISBN\|978-1-77162-248-6}}, </small> p. 156

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	* What made Darwin’s insight so radical was its reliance upon a natural mechanism to explain the development of species. And intelligent Creator was not required for natural selection to operate. Darwin’s vision was of a dynamic, self-generating process of material change. That process was entirely arbitrary, governed by physical laws and chance.		* What made Darwin’s insight so radical was its reliance upon a natural mechanism to explain the development of species. And intelligent Creator was not required for natural selection to operate. Darwin’s vision was of a dynamic, self-generating process of material change. That process was entirely arbitrary, governed by physical laws and chance.
			** Randall Fuller, ''The Book That Changed America'' (2017), <small> {{ISBN\|978-0-525-42833-6}}, </small> p. 24

			* Natural selection was a brilliant concept, but like many brilliant concepts it assaulted long-cherished ideas and beliefs. It threatened the notion that human beings were a separate and extraordinary species, differing from every other animal on the planet. Taken to its logical conclusion, it demolished the idea that people had been created in God’s image.
	** Randall Fuller, ''The Book That Changed America'' (2017), <small> {{ISBN\|978-0-525-42833-6}}, </small> p. 24		** Randall Fuller, ''The Book That Changed America'' (2017), <small> {{ISBN\|978-0-525-42833-6}}, </small> p. 24

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	* In the beginning was simplicity. It is difficult enough explaining how even a simple universe began. I take it as agreed that it would be even harder to explain the sudden springing up, fully armed, of complex order—life, or a being capable of creating life. [[Charles Darwin\|Darwin]]'s theory of evolution by natural selection is satisfying because it shows us away in which simplicity could change into complexity, how unordered atoms could group themselves into ever more complex patterns until they ended up manufacturing people. Darwin provides a solution, the only feasible one so far suggested, to the deep problem of our existence. I will try to explain the great theory in a more general way than is customary, beginning with the time before evolution itself began.		* In the beginning was simplicity. It is difficult enough explaining how even a simple universe began. I take it as agreed that it would be even harder to explain the sudden springing up, fully armed, of complex order—life, or a being capable of creating life. [[Charles Darwin\|Darwin]]'s theory of evolution by natural selection is satisfying because it shows us away in which simplicity could change into complexity, how unordered atoms could group themselves into ever more complex patterns until they ended up manufacturing people. Darwin provides a solution, the only feasible one so far suggested, to the deep problem of our existence. I will try to explain the great theory in a more general way than is customary, beginning with the time before evolution itself began.
	** [[Richard Dawkins]], ''The Selfish Gene'' (1976), Ch. 2 : The Replicators		** [[Richard Dawkins]], ''The Selfish Gene'' (1976), Ch. 2 : The Replicators

			* What made Darwin’s insight so radical was its reliance upon a natural mechanism to explain the development of species. And intelligent Creator was not required for natural selection to operate. Darwin’s vision was of a dynamic, self-generating process of material change. That process was entirely arbitrary, governed by physical laws and chance.
			** Randall Fuller, ''The Book That Changed America'' (2017), <small> {{ISBN\|978-0-525-42833-6}}, </small> p. 24

	* The phrase “common descent with modification” sums up the process of evolution because it means that, as descent occurs from common ancestors, so do modifications that cause organisms to be adapted to the environment. Through many observations and experiments, Charles Darwin came to the conclusion that natural selection was the process that made modification—that is, adaptation—possible.		* The phrase “common descent with modification” sums up the process of evolution because it means that, as descent occurs from common ancestors, so do modifications that cause organisms to be adapted to the environment. Through many observations and experiments, Charles Darwin came to the conclusion that natural selection was the process that made modification—that is, adaptation—possible.

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	== External links ==		== External links ==
			{{wikipedia}}
	{{https://amirjan2.blogspot.com/2020/09/evolution-and-darwins-theory-of-natural.html?m=1}

	[[Category:~~Darwin theory of natural selection~~]]		[[Category:Biology]]

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	[[Category:Darwin theory of natural selection]]		[[Category:Darwin theory of natural selection]]

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			* So among the three theories—creationism, seeding theory, and natural selection—there is no real contest. Evolution by natural selection is the only known ''scientific'' theory that can explain the astonishing diversity of life we see around us today. And it is the only known scientific theory that has the power to account for the origins and structure of complex adaptive mechanisms—from callus-producing mechanisms to large brains—that define human nature.
			** [[David Buss]], ''Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind'' (6th ed., 2019), Chap. 2 : The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

	* In the beginning was simplicity. It is difficult enough explaining how even a simple universe began. I take it as agreed that it would be even harder to explain the sudden springing up, fully armed, of complex order—life, or a being capable of creating life. [[Charles Darwin\|Darwin]]'s theory of evolution by natural selection is satisfying because it shows us away in which simplicity could change into complexity, how unordered atoms could group themselves into ever more complex patterns until they ended up manufacturing people. Darwin provides a solution, the only feasible one so far suggested, to the deep problem of our existence. I will try to explain the great theory in a more general way than is customary, beginning with the time before evolution itself began.		* In the beginning was simplicity. It is difficult enough explaining how even a simple universe began. I take it as agreed that it would be even harder to explain the sudden springing up, fully armed, of complex order—life, or a being capable of creating life. [[Charles Darwin\|Darwin]]'s theory of evolution by natural selection is satisfying because it shows us away in which simplicity could change into complexity, how unordered atoms could group themselves into ever more complex patterns until they ended up manufacturing people. Darwin provides a solution, the only feasible one so far suggested, to the deep problem of our existence. I will try to explain the great theory in a more general way than is customary, beginning with the time before evolution itself began.
	** [[Richard Dawkins]], ''The Selfish Gene'' (1976), Ch. 2 : The Replicators		** [[Richard Dawkins]], ''The Selfish Gene'' (1976), Ch. 2 : The Replicators

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	* Natural selection tends to sculpt a species to fit its environment and lifestyle and can create new species from existing ones. The end result is the diversity of life classified into the three domains of life.		* Natural selection tends to sculpt a species to fit its environment and lifestyle and can create new species from existing ones. The end result is the diversity of life classified into the three domains of life.
	** Sylvia S. Mader, ''Biology'' (10th ed., 2010), Ch. 1. A View of Life		** Sylvia S. Mader, ''Biology'' (10th ed., 2010), Ch. 1. A View of Life

			* Here we are after a couple million years of natural selection has produced a race that overpopulates and makes [[war]] and dominates and rapes, and you want to know about [[wisdom]]! Natural selection doesn’t select for wisdom!
			** [[Sheri S. Tepper]], ''Gibbon's Decline & Fall'' (1996), Chapter 11

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	'''[[w:Natural selection\|Natural selection]]''' is the ~~gradual~~ ~~process~~ by ~~which~~ ~~heritable~~ ~~biological~~ ~~traits become~~ ~~either~~ ~~more or less common~~ in a ~~population~~ as a ~~function~~ of the ~~effect~~ of ~~inherited~~ traits on the ~~differential~~ ~~reproductive~~ ~~success~~ of ~~organisms~~ ~~interacting~~ with ~~their~~ ~~environment~~		'''[[w:Natural selection\|Natural selection]]''' is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in [[w:phenotype\|phenotype]]. It is a key mechanism of [[evolution]], the change in [[w:Heredity\|heritable]] [[w:Phenotypic trait\|traits]] of a [[population]] over time. [[Charles Darwin]] popularised the term "natural selection", and compared it with [[w:selective breeding\|artificial selection]].

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