Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Darwinism> ?p ?o }
- Darwinism abstract "Darwinism is a theory of biological evolution developed by the English naturalist Charles Darwin and others, stating that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual's ability to compete, survive, and reproduce. Also called Darwinian theory, it originally included the broad concepts of transmutation of species or of evolution which gained general scientific acceptance after Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, including concepts which predated Darwin's theories, but subsequently referred to specific concepts of natural selection, of the Weismann barrier or in genetics of the central dogma of molecular biology. Though the term usually refers strictly to biological evolution, creationists have appropriated it to refer to the origin of life, and it has even been applied to concepts of cosmic evolution, both of which have no connection to Darwin's work. It is therefore considered the belief and acceptance of Darwin's and of his predecessors' work—in place of other theories, including divine design and extraterrestrial origins.English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley coined the term Darwinism in April 1860. It was used to describe evolutionary concepts in general, including earlier concepts published by English philosopher Herbert Spencer. Many of the proponents of Darwinism at that time, including Huxley, had reservations about the significance of natural selection, and Darwin himself gave credence to what was later called Lamarckism. The strict neo-Darwinism of German evolutionary biologist August Weismann gained few supporters in the late 19th century. During the approximate period of the 1880s to about 1920, sometimes called \"the eclipse of Darwinism,\" scientists proposed various alternative evolutionary mechanisms which eventually proved untenable. The development of the modern evolutionary synthesis from the 1930s to the 1950s, incorporating natural selection with population genetics and Mendelian genetics, revived Darwinism in an updated form.While the term Darwinism has remained in use amongst the public when referring to modern evolutionary theory, it has increasingly been argued by science writers such as Olivia Judson and Eugenie Scott that it is an inappropriate term for modern evolutionary theory. For example, Darwin was unfamiliar with the work of the Moravian scientist and Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel, and as a result had only a vague and inaccurate understanding of heredity. He naturally had no inkling of later theoretical developments and, like Mendel himself, knew nothing of genetic drift, for example. In the United States, creationists often use the term \"Darwinism\" as a pejorative term in reference to beliefs such as scientific materialism, but in the United Kingdom the term has no negative connotations, being freely used as a shorthand for the body of theory dealing with evolution, and in particular, with evolution by natural selection.".
- Darwinism thumbnail Charles_Darwin_by_Julia_Margaret_Cameron_2.jpg?width=300.
- Darwinism wikiPageExternalLink darwinism.
- Darwinism wikiPageExternalLink book3542.
- Darwinism wikiPageExternalLink 19192-h.htm.
- Darwinism wikiPageExternalLink 2up.
- Darwinism wikiPageExternalLink 2up.
- Darwinism wikiPageExternalLink 2up.
- Darwinism wikiPageExternalLink 2up.
- Darwinism wikiPageID "8411".
- Darwinism wikiPageLength "27592".
- Darwinism wikiPageOutDegree "135".
- Darwinism wikiPageRevisionID "708227896".
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink A_Devils_Chaplain.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Abiogenesis.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Ad_hoc.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Alfred_Russel_Wallace.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Altruism.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Anarchism.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Animal.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Asa_Gray.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Atheism.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink August_Weismann.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Augustinians.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Belief.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Ben_Stein.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Biologist.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Biology.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Botany.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Category:Biology_theories.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Category:History_of_evolutionary_biology.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Central_dogma_of_molecular_biology.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Charles_Darwin.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Charles_Hodge.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Competition_(biology).
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Creationism.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Darwin_Awards.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Darwinian_Fairytales.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Darwinism_(book).
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink David_Stove.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink DjVu.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Documentary_film.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Dogma.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink E._O._Wilson.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Erasmus_Darwin.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Ernst_Haeckel.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Ernst_Mayr.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Ethology.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Eugenics.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Eugenie_Scott.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Evolution.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Evolutionary_biology.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Expelled:_No_Intelligence_Allowed.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Francis_Galton.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Friar.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Gene_flow.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Gene_pool.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Genetic_drift.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Genetics.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Geography.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink George_Romanes.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Gradualism.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Gregor_Mendel.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Harvard_University.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Herbert_Spencer.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Heredity.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink History_of_evolutionary_thought.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Human.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Inheritance_of_acquired_characteristics.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Intelligent_design.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Intelligent_design_movement.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink James_Franklin_(philosopher).
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Jean-Baptiste_Lamarck.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink John_Fiske_(philosopher).
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink John_Rennie_(editor).
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Jonathan_Cape.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Joseph_Whitworth.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Lamarckism.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Law.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Maoism.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Marxism.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Mendelian_inheritance.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Metaphysical_naturalism.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Modern_evolutionary_synthesis.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Moravia.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Mutual_Aid:_A_Factor_of_Evolution.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Natural_history.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Natural_selection.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Naturalism_(philosophy).
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Neo-Darwinism.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Neural_Darwinism.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Nicolaus_Copernicus.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Nikolay_Danilevsky.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Olivia_Judson.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink On_the_Origin_of_Species.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Organism.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Pangenesis.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Panspermia.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Pejorative.
- Darwinism wikiPageWikiLink Peter_Kropotkin.