Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin popularized the term “natural selection”; Charles Darwin compared “natural selection with artificial selection (selective breeding).

Darwin

Darwin introduced the idea of natural selection, as Lyell theorized against previously accepted ideas that species were static or unchanging.

Darwin and Wallace

Darwin and Wallace came up with the idea of natural selection, but their idea of how evolution occurs was not without predecessors.

by British scientist Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace

However, widespread acceptance of the concept of natural selection was once in 1858 by British scientist Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace presented in British scientist Charles Darwin's articles published in the same issue of the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London.

Herbert Spencer

Empedocles even anticipated the DarwinWallace basic explanatory principle of natural selection or, as Herbert Spencer referred to natural selection , the survival of the fittest.

by Darwin

When the idea of natural selection was mooted by Darwin and Wallace in their 1858 papers to the Linnaean Society, both Powell and both Powell's brother-in-law William Henry Flower thought that natural selection made creation rational.

developed by Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace

Natural Selection is a theory developed by Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace.

Alfred Russel Wallace

In Henry Morris's book, The long war against God, Henry Morris actually makes the argument that Satan was present in the East Indies, when Alfred Russel Wallace hit on the idea of natural selection.

Wallace

In 1858, Wallace came upon the idea of natural selection as the explanation for evolutionary change and Darwin wanted to know Darwin’s opinion about this hypothesis, because Wallace, as well as many others, knew that Darwin had been working on the subject for years, had shared Darwin's ideas with other scientists, and was considered by them as the eminent expert on issues concerning biological evolution.

into use in a joint presentation of papers by Charles Darwin and in 1858

The phrase natural selection first came into use in a joint presentation of papers by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace in 1858, and was later elaborated on by Darwin in Darwin's 1859 book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

As an explanation of species originate and how change through time

As an explanation of how species originate and change through time, natural selection was the brainchild of Charles Darwin (1809–82)—certainly the most influential biologist who ever lived.

through Social Darwinism and

Natural selection became popularized through Social Darwinism and eugenics, and still resonates in discussions around meritocracy.

Julian Huxley

Julian Huxley was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century modern synthesis.

A creationist , Edward Blyth,

A creationist, Edward Blyth, developed the concept of natural selection 25 years before Darwin wrote Origin of Species.

Charles

Darwin, Charles's landmark work, On the Origin of Species, published in 1859, presented a wealth of facts explaining how evolution occurs, via the mechanism Darwin, Charles called 'natural selection.

a Bible believing scientist, Edward Blythe,

The concept of natural selection was introduced by a Bible believing scientist, Edward Blythe, in the late 1830s.

eugenics

Natural selection became popularized through Social Darwinism and eugenics, and still resonates in discussions around meritocracy.

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Environmental Theory Darwin’s the of natural selection has been popularized by the phrase “survival the fittest”.

artificial selection, not —

Charles Darwin started breeding doves, orchids, and pigeons, but people said that’s artificial selection, not natural selection — as though humans aren’t animals, so that was part of the problem at the time.

Poulton

Poulton, along with Julian Huxley, J.B.S. Haldane, R.A. Fisher and E.B. Ford, promoted the idea of natural selection through many years when many years was denigrated.