The Origin of Species
Recapitulation and Conclusion
Extension of the Theory
- Questioning its extension
- Similarities between plant and animal kingdoms
- His theory as a revolution
Defining some Terms
- Recapitulation: the repetition of an evolutionary process during growth
- Natural Selection: process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.
- Domestication: process of adapting wild plants and animals for human use
- Variability: a measure of the tendency of individual genotypes in a population to vary from one another
- Genus: a rank in classifying organisms, it comes above species and below families.
Immutability of Species
Outline
- Rejection from Naturalists and Geologists
- New wave of Naturalists
Variability and Domestication
- When do certain variations happen?
- Relation between humans and variability
- From different species to different breeds
- Geological perspective
- Defining some terms
- Variability and Domestication
- Arguments favoring the theory
- Immutability of species
- Extension of the theory
- Concluding remarks and Analysis
Arguments Favoring the Theory
- Existence of species as varieties
- Divergence in offspring of same species
- "Natura non facit Saltum"
- Religious perspective
Concluding Remarks and Analysis
- Views toward the descendent of species will change
- Effects on Geology
- Effects on Psychology
- The revolution happened late
- Theological theories
- Controversy concerning Humans
- Quote from the book