On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

Darwin, C. (1859). On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.

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Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1859

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biology_ecology, earth_sciences

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• Competition
  • This coupling generates selective pressure that rewards relative advantage and drives continual adaptation, differentiation, or escalation.

    This sourceJohn Murray. Foundational text of evolutionary biology: Chapter 3, "Struggle for Existence," frames the universal competition among organisms (driven by excess fecundity over limited resources) as the engine of natural selection — the rivalrous struggle generates the selective pressure rewarding relative advantage and driving continual adaptation.

• Deep Time

  • This sourceJohn Murray. Relies on Lyell's deep-time framework; the chapter 'On the Imperfection of the Geological Record' argues natural selection's slow operation requires the multi-million-year intervals uniformitarian stratigraphy supplied.

• Natural Selection
  • In biology it is the foundational case and the source of the theory: heritable variation in phenotype, differential survival and reproduction under ecological pressure, and genetic inheritance carrying the favored variants forward, iterated over generations to produce the fit of organisms to their environments — the engine Darwin identified and modern population genetics formalized.

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