The conflicting evolutionary theories of Darwin and Lamarck Over the years, philosophers, religious thinkers and scientists have tried to explain the history of life on Earth. Throughout the years there has been many theories on the history of the Earth, many people believe that God created every organism on the Earth more or less how it is now. As the interest in fossils and natural history arose the beginning of a modern theory began to …
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…He suggested that life is a competitive struggle to survive, that living things must compete for food and space. Darwin put forwards that, within a given population in a given environment, certain individuals have certain characteristics that make them more likely to survive and reproduce. These individuals will pass those characteristics onto their offspring. The number of organisms with these characteristics increases as the generation passes, individuals lacking the beneficial characteristics gradually decrease in number.