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This article describes the history of human thinkings on biological evolution and its extensions.

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Pre-Darwin

Charles Darwin formulated and published the first proper theory of evolution in 1858 and 1859, being a synthesis of earlier ideas.

Wilkins identifies Darwin's into seven categories:

  1. ]
  2. Common descent
  3. Struggle for existence
  4. Natural selection
  5. Sexual Selection
  6. Biogeographic distribution
  7. Heredity

Darwin

The Modern Synthesis

modern rvolutionary synthesis

The Williams Revolution

see Williams revolution

Universal Darwinism

Dennett (1995) argues that Darwin's dangerous idea was that algorithm that could be applied to any circumstances.

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