Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection
Abstract In this chapter, Darwin addresses a number of major criticisms that had been thrown at his theory of evolution by natural selection and survival of the fittest, particularly those delivered by zoologist St. George Jackson Mivart, who had initially been a strong supporter of the theory. In d...
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Oxford University PressNew York
2023
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197575260.003.0008 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/57972879/oso-9780197575260-chapter-8.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract In this chapter, Darwin addresses a number of major criticisms that had been thrown at his theory of evolution by natural selection and survival of the fittest, particularly those delivered by zoologist St. George Jackson Mivart, who had initially been a strong supporter of the theory. In doing so, Darwin discusses in detail about some remarkable examples that he hasn’t mentioned before, including the evolution of baleen whales from toothed ancestors, the evolution of climbing in plants, and the evolution of breasts in mammals. This chapter appeared in The Origin of Species for the first time in the sixth edition, on which this book is based. |
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