Origin of species (theory of evolution)

Many evolutionary ideas had previously been proposed to explain recent discoveries in biology. There was growing support for such ideas among dissident anatomists and among the public, but during the first half of the 19th century the English scientific establishment was closely associated with the Church of England, while science was part of natural theology. Ideas of species mutating have been controversial because they conflict with beliefs that species are unchanging parts of a designed system and that humans are distinct, unrelated to animals. While the political and theological consequences were hotly debated, the idea of ​​the mutation was not accepted by the majority of scholars.
The style of the book is directed to the non-specialist reader, and it attracted wide attention upon its publication, so its first edition was executed in less than 24 hours. Compared to Mendel’s research on genetics based on statistical evidence proving the transmission of genetic traits, we find a big difference. Mendel’s research was buried in university libraries until the evolutionists needed it and re-presented it as evidence of Evolution is not mentioned by Darwin in his book. As an eminent scientist, Darwin’s discoveries were taken seriously and the evidence he presented sparked scientific, philosophical, and religious debate. The controversy over the book contributed to the campaign by Thomas H. Huxley and colleagues in the X Club for the secularization of science promote scientific naturalism. Within two decades, there was widespread scientific agreement that evolution, with a pattern of branching out from common descent, had occurred, but scientists were slow to give natural selection the degree of importance that Darwin thought was appropriate. During the “Eclipse of Darwinism” from the 1880s to the 1930s, many other mechanisms of evolution were given greater credit. With the advance of modern evolutionary synthesis in the 1930s and 1940s, Darwin’s concept of evolutionary adaptation through natural selection became central to modern evolutionary theory, which in turn became the unifying concept of the life sciences.