How current are Charles Darwin's theories?

When Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, he touched off a Cambrian explosion in evolutionary thought. Naturalists had ... Just as most of the weird Cambrian monsters eventually went extinct, many current hypotheses in evolution will also wither over time. read more

Darwin in his 1859 Origin of Species made two distinct claims: 1. In a population, natural selection works on available genetic variability tending to produce populations better adapted to their environment. read more

Darwin's Theory of Evolution is the widely held notion that all life is related and has descended from a common ancestor: the birds and the bananas, the fishes and the flowers -- all related. Darwin's general theory presumes the development of life from non-life and stresses a purely naturalistic (undirected) "descent with modification". read more