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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
evolution concept that embodies the belief that existing animals and plants developed by a process of gradual, continuous change from previously existing forms. This theory, also known as descent with modification, constitutes organic evolution. Inorganic evolution, on the other hand, is concerned with the development of the physical universe from unorganized matter. Organic evolution, as opposed to belief in the special creation of each individual species as an immutable form, conceives of life as having had its beginnings in a simple primordial protoplasmic mass (probably originating in the... Read more
Evolution
EVOLUTION CONCEPT Among the dominant concepts of the modern world...as powerful — or as misunderstood — as evolution. Even the name is something of a misnomer, since it almost...striving to reach a goal, as though the "purpose" of evolution were to produce the most intelligent species, human ... Read more
Evolution, Theory of
Evolution, Theory of. Until the late 1850s, when the British philosopher Herbert Spencer introduced the term “evolution” to describe the history of the universe as a...the complex, writers discussing what came to be called evolution typically labeled it the “development”... Read more

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