英语词汇darwinian的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Darwinian. “A hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in habits.” So Charles Robert Darwin (1809–82) described our common ancestor in The De- scent of Man (1871), which didn’t sound at all like Adam or Eve. The epochal theory of evolution was formulated by Darwin in his On the Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859), The Descent of Man, and other works. Evidence gathered during a five-year cruise to South America and the Galapagos Islands as a naturalist aboard the Beagle (1831–36) enabled Darwin to confirm organic evolution, and to propose his theory of natural selection, which he explained 20 years later. Darwin deduced that all species descended from a few primal ancestors and that favorable variations within a species better enabled it to survive—the survival of the fittest, as Herbert Spencer called the process. Special development and natural selection, he ex- plained, not special creations, accounted for the diversity of species on earth. The Darwinian theory is widely known and accepted today, but provoked a storm of controversy in the 19th century in both religious and scientific circles.

词汇	darwinian
词源	Darwinian. “A hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in habits.” So Charles Robert Darwin (1809–82) described our common ancestor in The De- scent of Man (1871), which didn’t sound at all like Adam or Eve. The epochal theory of evolution was formulated by Darwin in his On the Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859), The Descent of Man, and other works. Evidence gathered during a five-year cruise to South America and the Galapagos Islands as a naturalist aboard the Beagle (1831–36) enabled Darwin to confirm organic evolution, and to propose his theory of natural selection, which he explained 20 years later. Darwin deduced that all species descended from a few primal ancestors and that favorable variations within a species better enabled it to survive—the survival of the fittest, as Herbert Spencer called the process. Special development and natural selection, he ex- plained, not special creations, accounted for the diversity of species on earth. The Darwinian theory is widely known and accepted today, but provoked a storm of controversy in the 19th century in both religious and scientific circles.
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