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The Origin of Species: a modern perspective on Darwin’s diff
Title: The Origin of Species: a modern perspective on Darwin’s diff
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The Origin of Species: a modern perspective on Darwin’s diff
The Origin of Species: a modern perspective on Darwin’s difficulties on theory
John Maynard Smith called the theory outlined in On The Origin Of Species By Means Of Natural Selection (Darwin 1859) ‘the main unifying idea in biology’ (Maynard Smith 1993). Its central concept is simple: organisms produce more offspring than can survive, and those organisms which, by chance, are better adapted to their environment will tend to leave more offspring. If this variation is heritable, …showed first 75 words of 2863 total…
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