What book did Darwin write? What did it introduce the world?
1 Answer
Charles Darwin wrote the Origin of the Species It introduce the idea that all life could be explain by purely natural laws, and causes.
Explanation:
The Origin of the Species used an either or argument. Either all life was created exactly the way it observed today, ( the fixity of all species.) or all life came about from descent with modification from a single ancestral form.
Using analogies from artificial selection Darwin proposed that all forms of life could have come about by natural selection. The laws of inheritance were not known at the time and Darwin thought ( wrongly) that there was an infinite possibilities in the germs cells. Natural selection would cause those possibilities that were best suited to the environment to survive and pass on their characteristics. to their offspring causing an irreversible increase in complexity. This idea explained how all life could be related by the tree of life which he called descent with modification and is now known as Darwinian Evolution or just Evolution.
This idea know as Darwinian Evolution introduce to the world a way of thinking about life from a purely naturalistic world view, eliminating the need for the supernatural to explain how life came about.
