What did Charles Darwin first propose?

I suggest browsing the other books and papers to see what Darwin “first proposed”. Evolution was not Darwin's first proposal. Darwin was already one of the most well-known scientists in Europe before he wrote Origin of Species. read more

In 1839 Darwin proposed that the parallel roads in Glenn Roy were of marine origin: Observations on the parallel roads of Glen Roy, and of other parts of Lochaber in Scotland, with an attempt to prove that they are of marine origin. read more

Charles Darwin proposed a mechanism - called natural selection - for how evolution takes place. Evolution is the process by which living things become adapted to their environment and new species develop. The idea of evolution was already widely discussed before Darwin but there was no widely accepted mechanism. read more

FitzRoy had given him the first volume of Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology, which set out uniformitarian concepts of land slowly rising or falling over immense periods, and Darwin saw things Lyell's way, theorising and thinking of writing a book on geology. read more