Darwin, Then and Now: Variation

Variation

Darwin wrote -

“In living bodies, variation will cause the slight alteration, generation will multiply them almost infinitely, and natural selection will pick out with unerring skill each improvement.”

Contradicted by

“We have seen that species at any one period are not indefinitely variable, and are not linked together by a multitude of intermediate gradations.”

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Darwin, Then and Now is a journey through the most amazing story in the history of science - the history of evolution; encapsulating who Darwin was, what he said, and what scientists have discovered since the publication of The Origin of Species in 1859.

With over 1,000 references, Darwin’s life climaxing with the search for a natural law of evolution is investigated in the context of the scientific evidence since discovered in the fossil record, embryology, molecular biology and genetics.