Why are we still learning about Charles Darwin today?

Question

Why are we still learning about Charles Darwin and his Theory of Evolution ,natural selection?
What impact is it having on us today?

Answer 1

Even though I believe Darwin was wrong in his conclusions about evolution I still think his work is a landmark in the history of science.

Answer 2

Why are we still studying Darwin?

Well, why are we still studying Gallileo? Copernicus? Kepler? Newton? Einstein?

We still study Darwin and the Theory of Evolution for the same reason we still study all those other major contributors ro science - because his discoveries and theirs are still relevant today.



What impact? I'll name three:

Yearly flu shots are affected by evolving viruses.

Antibiotic development is affected by evolving bacteria.

Pesticide development is affected by insects evolving resistance.



EVERYTHING in any biological field is affected by our understanding of evolution. That's why we study it.

Answer 3

Doesn't make much sense to me.. The concept of selection was well understood and unnatural selection (selective breeding) was practiced for hundreds if not thousands of years before Darwin. The new bit he introduced 'Common Descent' was empirically disproved in 1953... Were it not for the social and political ramifications (yes the old creation verses 'evolution' debate) Darwin's notion would have been discarded then. More recently the restated mechanism of Common Descent (Natural Selection + genetic mutation + time = novel body types - i.e. creatures at the taxonomic level of Genus or above) has also been objectively discredited by the science of Genomics neo-Darwinism is effectively disproved as well.

Answer 4

It is the basis for biology, a few fields of psychology, and a little bit of chemistry and physics.

Darwin's theory is very complex, it explains much more than just natural selection.

In fact, he spent over 30 years developing it.

Answer 5

Without the study of Darwin we wouldn't be researching many things including genetically modified crops. New genetic technologies in farming cattle to breed them so they would produce more milk in a shorter time period.



Now where would we be if Darwin wasn't born?

Answer 6

I would say the same thing about history, and we're still learning that. It's because we need to know this to understand why animals have the traits they do and how this relates to mutations and DNA. We are all slight mutations of our parents. None of us share the same DNA. And wouldn't things be sort of confusing if we didn't know about evolution? It would just seem like magic that animals like porcupines, bioluminescent deep sea fishes, chameleons, and pretty much any animal well adapted to its environment is the way it is.

Answer 7

Well we are interested in how we got this way and how different the past was.. So we are still learning evolution.

It helps scientists to make sense of the complications of life so to study and understand them better.

And makes understanding complexity of life possible if not easy.

Answer 8

He was one of the leading scientists to discover evolution in the animals in a very confined environment. Animals had to adapt to the climate, the plants they ate, etc.

Answer 9

Evolution by natural selection is one of the most important scientific discoveries ever, it is the basis on much of things like drug development and gene therapies

Answer 10

Sounds like a homework question. The kind that is answered in your assigned reading. Which clearly you are not doing.



I suggest you stop wasting time on the computer and instead go back over the chapter the teacher gave you.

Answer 11

he only proposed the theory of evolution...he only gave us the idea of the origin of life ..thats why he is called the father of evolution..

Answer 12

It's propaganda for the religion of science. Who could look at a monkey and think it and humans were related?

Answer 13

It happens to be the history of human beings. Where would you start history? With your own birth? Don't you think you'd ever wonder how buildings got there or if there wasn't ever a car?

Answer 14

you have to realize that Darwin didnt understand his theory to the point specialists do today, it still gets more developed by observation of animal populations and genetics

Answer 15

It has to do with the most basic education (for what education is worth, to you).

Some live in such delusion that any education is wasted on them, other than an education that supports and furthers their delusions.

Answer 16

Because it's a fundamental aspect of biology, cupcake. To ignore it is to ignore biology, and where would our society be without biology? We'd have no doctors for a start.

Answer 17

We still get new flu vaccines every year because of his discoveries.

Answer 18

Pretty much the same reasons we still learn about Newton and his ideas about gravity, or Maxwell and his ideas about electromagnetism.

Answer 19

Because his theory makes sense.

Answer 20

history of science

Answer 21

Do you have a problem with biological processes?

Answer 22

The impact depends on how weak-minded you are. Many parents have chosen to homeschool their kids to lessen the damage of Darwin's musings on their children's development.