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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 83. Chapters: B. F. Skinner, Ivan Pavlov, Richard Dawkins, E. O. Wilson, Jane Goodall, Julian Jaynes, Desmond Morris, Edward Thorndike, Konrad Lorenz, Julian Huxley, Dian Fossey, Charles Darwin, George Schaller, Judith Hand, Karl von Frisch, John B. Calhoun, Frans de Waal, Shaun Ellis, Birut Galdikas, Nikolaas Tinbergen, George Romanes, Ulf Hohmann, Irene Pepperberg, Jakob von Uexkull, David Stenhouse, Warder Clyde Allee, George and Elizabeth Peckham, Kurt Fabri, Wolfgang Wickler, Dawn Prince-Hughes, Frank A. Beach, Danilo Mainardi, William Morton Wheeler, C. Lloyd Morgan, Lyall Watson, Aubrey Manning, Donald Broom, John Endler, Jeremy Marchant Forde, Stephen Herrero, Patrick Bateson, David McFarland, Bernard Hollander, Martin Moynihan, Irenaus Eibl-Eibesfeldt, Marc Bekoff, William Homan Thorpe, Enrico Alleva, Adriaan Kortlandt, Alan Grafen, Martin Lindauer, Oskar Heinroth, Marian Stamp Dawkins, Boris Cyrulnik, Zden k Veselovsky, Patricia McConnell, Johannes Abraham Bierens de Haan. Excerpt: Charles Robert Darwin FRS (12 February 1809 - 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection. He published his theory with compelling evidence for evolution in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, overcoming scientific rejection of earlier concepts of transmutation of species. By the 1870s the scientific community and much of the general public accepted evolution as a fact. However, many favoured competing explanations and it was not until the emergence of the modern evolutionary synthesis from the 1930s to the 1950s that a broad consensus developed that natural selection was the basic mechanism of evolution. In modified form, ...
