The idea that a supreme being had created humans in his image and likeness was spread by most western scientists until the mid-19th century, they thought that this divine action had created all the creatures on the planet until Charles arrived. darwin although there were voices murmuring the evolution of species the British naturalist was the first evidence providing for explaining the operation of natural selection his theory took a turn to biology offering another way of understanding the foundations of the human being this made He was one of the most influential scientists and thinkers in history but first he embarked on an amazing journey to perform hundreds of experiments and write for 20 years in the year 1831 Darwin was 22 years old and studying at the University of Changes when they were cited as a naturalist on a great journey aboard the HMS Beagle Darwin spent about 5 years sailing through several continents begins He went to South America from where they would return with dozens of living examples, illustrations and also fossils, in fact these fossils gave him one of the first clues about evolution, for example when he saw the remains of a mylodon that was a large animal similar to the Darwin sloth bear. He thought that this resemblance could not be the product of coincidence, there had to be a kinship with the current species upon arrival in the Galapagos Islands.
Darwin was able to observe species such as giant tortoises that lived in nearby environments but had certain physical and unique variations on each island. In humid areas where vegetation was abundant, the turtles had a short neck and dome-shaped carapace, while on islands with an arid environment they had a flat carapace and a longer neck, but why is this difference due to their return Darwin spent time observing how by crossing specimens of one species, animal breeders and gardeners created new va He saw that artificial selection by man was key to succeeding in creating them. Darwin thought that the natural world probably led to the same type of selection but could not understand how it happened until he read 18th century British intellectual Thomas Robert Malthus in his essay carried out in matos demography said that at a time of growth in Europe the population mass would increase much more than the available food and that he said would provoke a struggle for survival that idea catapulted Darwin to explain the evolutionary scheme in nature is given a struggle for survival in which the one who is stronger does not necessarily survive, but rather the one who can best adapt to the conditions of the environment where they live if a living being or some type of trait that helps them survive is going to have a greater probability of success in reproducing while the one that does not adapt will die without leaving offspring the creatures with the greatest reproductive success.
ivo pass that trait to their lineage and so on until the variations have a new species as a product, for this reason the differences between the turtles that Darwin saw in the Galapagos Islands were a consequence of evolution in an arid environment those that had long neck could reach the bushes and feed while those that lived in a humid and leafy environment could eat grass and protect themselves from the predators of the place this thanks to the short neck and the dome-shaped shell Darwin proposed the idea that all the Species including humans were not born independently but descended from a common ancestor and according to him at that time life on the planet began to diversify 20 years after his expedition on the Beagle in 1831 Charles Darwin had written countless pages but He had not published any yet. He wanted to have irrefutable evidence. He knew that his theory was going to mean total chaos.
He was cautious, but everything changed. It happened when in 1858 he received a letter from Alfred Russel Wallace, a great admirer and fellow naturalist, who told him that he had reached the same conclusion that evolution was produced by natural selection in fear that Wallace would be named as the sole author of the theory. Two naturalists reached an agreement to deliver a joint letter explaining their findings, but when Darwin published a year later his book entitled on the origin of species, this transferred the scientific world and over the years he became a celebrity, not without first shaking the foundations of Victorian Britain Darwin changed everything by explaining that the diversity of the world is thanks to a biological fact where God did not intervene Darwin descended to the human being at the same evolutionary level as the rest of the creatures on the planet scientific advances allowed to corroborate his theory and Even the Catholic Church accepted with nuances that evolution was soluble with faith and today more than 150 years later s that the world knew Darwin's theory, we know that evolution is a fact, the planet is constantly changing, sometimes dramatically, and we change with it what you think of Darwin's journey.
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