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Naturally Selected
The common questions asked by the world: "where did we come from," "what is the meaning of life," these were the exact questions asked by Charles Darwin. Darwin looked at the world in a whole new way. He broke apart from the known life of religion and brought completely new views to the world. However, Darwin's theories of evolution had a large influence on the world in a controversial, and sometimes, in a harmful way, by taking the thoughts of evolution completely out of context.
While aboard his ship The Beagle in the 1930's, Darwin took note to the changes he saw in the many different species off the coast of the Galapagos, and developed a book entitled, The Origin of Species. He popularized the idea of "fit-of-the-fittest," a key description of natural selection. This is the basic idea that if an organism was not born with the ability to pass their traits on to future generations, then they were not meant to populate the world. Another well known......

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