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Darwin Vs. Wallace - College Paper

Darwin Vs. Wallace

It has been over 100 years since English naturalist Charles Darwin first told the world his revolutionary concept about how livings things develop. Evolution through natural selection and adaptation was the basis of his argument as it remains to this day a debated subject by many. Across this nation, a "return" to "traditional" values has also brought the return of age old debated topics. One issue that truly separates Americans is the issue of creation versus evolution. Since the 19th century, this divisive topic has been debated in school boards and state capitols across America. In many instances
religious fundamentalists won the day by having banned the instruction or even the ...

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creationists.
Using sexual selection and the origins of human intellect as his proponents, Gould argues his opinion in the favor of evolutionary thought.
In this essay titled "Natural Selection and The Human Brain: ," Gould tells about the contest between Darwin and another prominent scientist named Alfred Wallace over two important subjects. These topics, one being sexual selection and the other about the origins of the human brain and
intellect were debated by men who generally held the same views on evolution. However on these two subjects, Wallace chose to differ as he described it as his "special heresy" (53). The first of these two areas of debate between the two men was the question of "sexual selection." Darwin theorized that there
laid two types of sexual selection. First a competition between males for access to females and second the choice "exercised by females themselves" (51). In this, Darwin attributed racial differences among modern human beings to ...

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Added: 4/29/2008 10:54:28 PM
Category: Biographies
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 1099
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