Sentences with phrase «by natural selection explains»

The theory of evolution by natural selection explains the adaptedness and diversity of the world solely materialistically.

Theory, evolution by natural selection explains how all life came to be in its present form.

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Darwinism can not explain chemical complexity for the very good reason that natural selection requires a harsh environment brought about by overpopulation.

This is made clear by the definition of its very proponents: «the theory of intelligent design (ID) holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause rather than an undirected process such as natural selection.

The Inst.itute defines it as the proposition that «certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection.»

It can not be decided by creatures mutually adapting to one another according to natural selection and mutation, for this assumes a basic physico - chemical order it does not explain.

Swift maintains that evolution occurs, but is limited; that many cases of evolution of species have been observed, but these can be explained by gene segregation guided by natural selection.

Their argument has been around for four decades, but nothing in the letter addresses the challenges we raised: that the mathematical ground of inclusive fitness theory is unsound and that, when you compare competing hypotheses, outcomes are much more directly and convincingly explained by mainstream natural selection.

Dr James Walters, from Cardiff University, who led the study, explains: «Many of the genetic variants that confer risk to schizophrenia are relatively common in the population, and many scientists would have expected them to be selected against by natural selection, become rare and eventually disappear from the population.

For instance, the theory of kin selection — helping your relatives so your genes will be reproduced — can be illustrated by a formula called «Hamilton's rule,» which explains when a behavior or trait will be favored by natural selection.

At one point, he explained that so many more babies survive childbirth now that natural selection, as proposed by Charles Darwin, can not act on humans to favor infants with traits that are beneficial today or to weed out those with adaptations that impair survival.

Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 - 19 April 1882) was a British naturalist who achieved lasting fame by convincing the scientific community of the occurrence of evolution and proposing the theory that this could be explained through natural and sexual selection.

But furthermore — and this is perhaps Darwin's greatest contribution — he developed a set of new principles that influence the thinking of every person: the living world, through evolution, can be explained without recourse to supernaturalism; essentialism or typology is invalid, and we must adopt population thinking, in which all individuals are unique (vital for education and the refutation of racism); natural selection, applied to social groups, is indeed sufficient to account for the origin and maintenance of altruistic ethical systems; cosmic teleology, an intrinsic process leading life automatically to ever greater perfection, is fallacious, with all seemingly teleological phenomena explicable by purely material processes; and determinism is thus repudiated, which places our fate squarely in our own evolved hands.

This 13 - slide presentation covers the mode of action of penicillin and streptomycin and explains the evolution, by natural selection, of antibiotic resistance.

There is something even more peculiar about our species than all these things, and that is this: we are the only species on the planet that can not be fully explained by Charles Darwin's otherwise faultless theory of evolution by natural selection.

Although a proportion of the ROH observed in both English bulldog and Standard Poodle can be attributed to natural selection pressures occurring over thousands of years [33, 34], the differences in ROH size and number are better explained by the comparative changes in outward appearance.

Likewise, evolution by natural selection of genes is the only thing that thus far can explain biological change in the distant past, even if we don't quite understand the gory details of that past.