M Natural selection 16gg8 ESD.77 Charles Darwin( 1809-1882 Extremely controversial and influential book(1859) On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life Observations Species are continually developing Homo sapiens sapiens comes from ape-like stock Variations between species are enormous Huge potential for production of offspring, but only a small percentage survives to adulthood Evolution natural selection of inheritable variations o Massachusetts Institute of Technology -Prof. de Weck and Prof Willcox Engineering Systems Division and Dept of Aeronautics and Astronautics7 © Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Prof. de Weck and Prof. Willcox Engineering Systems Division and Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics Natural Selection Natural Selection Charles Darwin (1809-1882) Extremely controversial and influential book (1859) On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life Observations: • Species are continually developing • Homo sapiens sapiens comes from ape-like stock • Variations between species are enormous • Huge potential for production of offspring, but only a small percentage survives to adulthood Evolution = natural selection of inheritable variations