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Politics : Evolution
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1420)6/12/2006 1:08:31 PM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) of 69300
 
Darwin didn't seem interested in the subject

After Darwin's 1831 voyage on the Beagle, he spent years meticulously researching evolution and his theory of natural selection. In particular he tried to make it into an experimental science, by emphasising the similarities between natural selections, and the artificial selections used by breeders. He also showed how to use the fossil record, and it's gaps, to make predictions about the type of fossils that would fill the gaps. Wallace wrote to Darwin in 1858 because Darwin was already a scientific authority on the subject. He did move quickly to publish when he received Wallace's intent to publish, and was able to do so because the book had already been written over a course of 20 years.

- Earlier, in 1852 an arborist named A. KERNER von MARILAUN wrote a book on tree farming which contained an appendix which speculated that trees might form new species in a process that is pretty much the same as natural selection as described by Wallace and Darwin. Neither had apparently heard of this rather obscure book. It is interested to note that all three men had read a 1798 essay by THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS. This essay was all about the population pressures and resulting competition that any lifeform must meet when it's niche begins to fill.
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