In the mid-19th century, Charles Darwin (1809-1882), an English biologist undertook a voyage of discovery in South America and studied the amazing variety of plant and animal life especially in the island of Galapagos.
The theory of evolution by natural selection, first formulated in Darwin’s book “On the Origin of Species” in 1859, is the process by which organisms change over time as a result of changes in inheritable physical or behavioural traits. Changes that allow an organism to better adapt to its environment will help it survive and have more offspring. Evolution by natural selection is one of the best substantiated theories in the history of science, supported by evidence from a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including paleontology, geology, genetics and developmental biology.
On his return to England after five years of observation, he published his famous Origin of Species by means of....
