TheoryOfGradualEvolution

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[edit] Theory of gradual evolution

Darwin used the term Theory of gradual evolution only once in the 6th edition of Origin of Species.

"...This difficulty, as in the case of unconscious selection by man, is avoided on the theory of gradual evolution, through the preservation of a large number of individuals, which varied more or less in any favourable direction, and of the destruction of a large number which varied in an opposite manner. That many species have been evolved in an extremely gradual manner, there can hardly be a doubt...."

[edit] Theory of evolution

Darwin used the term Theory of evolution only once in the 6th edition of Origin of Species.

"...If numerous species, belonging to the same genera or families, have really started into life at once, the fact would be fatal to the theory of evolution through natural selection. For the development by this means of a group of forms, all of which are descended from some one progenitor, must have been an extremely slow process; and the progenitors must have lived long before their modified descendants. But we continually overrate the perfection of the geological record, and falsely infer, because certain genera or families have not been found beneath a certain stage, that they did not exist before that stage...

[edit] Purpose of article

It does cite the source: Origin Species 6th edition. The purpose? Well the purpose is to give Darwin's actual theory the theory that the evolution page on Wikipedia refuses to provide. They keep on telling us about Darwin's theory but then never state the actual theory. But of course Darwin didn't give a theory he stated a tautology. "..preservation of a large number of individuals, which varied more or less in any favorable direction, and of the destruction of a large number which varied in an opposite manner..."

Or in other words those that survived, survived because they are not dead and those that didn't survive didn't because they are dead and therefore a monkey turned into a human. (Or common ancestor or whatever you want to call the ape back then.)