These included well known naturalists such as Alfred Russel Wallace, who collected specimens in the Amazon and Malay Archipelago and independently formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection.
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Famously visited by Charles Darwin in 1835, the archipelago played a key role in his theory of evolution.
Her theory rests on a new picture of the evolution of the early solar system.
He did indeed develop a theory that species evolve and that the two crucial conditions of evolution were time and favourable conditions, in other words that species adapt to their environment.
The authors conclude that their findings support a theory that females may have played a similarly important role in the evolution of tool technology among early humans.
"It would be evolution vs. creationism, " said Kovacs, drawing a bizarre parallel with the famous 1925 Scopes trial on the validity of the theory of evolution.
Along the way it charts Keynes's intellectual progress, showing how events, such as Britain's persistently high joblessness in the 1920s, fed the evolution of his view that classical economic theory was inadequate and that a capitalist economy called for government intervention.
The film presents a sympathetic view of intelligent design - the theory that the universe is too complex to be explained by evolution alone.
The scientist, who is also a Church of England priest, adds that any teaching should not give the impression that creationism and the theory of evolution are equally valid scientifically.
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If you enter the Jardin des Plantes through the gate nearest to my house you will see a statue overlooking the garden that honours - according to the inscription on the plinthe - the founder of the theory of evolution.
In humans the vocal tract acts as a filter on the sound from the source, and the "source-filter theory" held that the separate, fine control of the vocal tract to be the product of a long evolution in the development of the subtleties of speech.
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