Evolution

Related keyterms: adaptation, anti-teleology, chance, change, competition, development, diversity, genetics, germ plasma, Lamarkism (use inheritance), mutation, natural selection, progress, sexual selection, survival of the fittest, variation

Related figures: Grant Allen (1948-1899), Charles Darwin (1809-1882), Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919), Thomas Huxley (1825-1895), Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829), Gregor Mendel (1822-1884), Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), August Weismann (1834-1914)

Also see: Social Darwinism