id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ahmttysdnzfx5ivj5bo7oyiivu Kathleen Frederickson Evolution 2018 5 .pdf application/pdf 1928 176 55 CHARLES Darwin famously does not use the word "evolution" in thefirst edition of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or Reflecting on evolution's altered status as a legitimate scientific principle, Darwin writes that and non-naturalist friends be skeptical, dismissive, or wary of earlier evolutionary hypotheses; by 1872, among naturalists at least, natural selection might be contentious, but evolution itself was not. the view that species transmute as a result of adaptation and the inheritance of acquired characteristics;2 for Lyell, Lamarckian "evolution" the fittest"6—is representative of many nineteenth-century appropriations of evolution: though Spencer was happy to adopt natural selection Beer's now classic account of the uses of evolution as a narrative paradigm stresses that Darwin's later writing on sexual selection turned to 1. Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or Darwins (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), 51. (Cannon Schmitt, Darwin and the Memory of the Human: Evolution, ./cache/work_ahmttysdnzfx5ivj5bo7oyiivu.pdf ./txt/work_ahmttysdnzfx5ivj5bo7oyiivu.txt