Bristol, United Kingdom

Palaeontology and Evolution

Bachelor's
Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: biology
Qualification: BSc
Kind of studies: full-time studies
Bachelor of Science (BSc)
University website: www.bristol.ac.uk
Evolution
Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. Evolutionary processes give rise to biodiversity at every level of biological organisation, including the levels of species, individual organisms, and molecules.
Evolution
Thus life by life and love by love
We passed through the cycles strange,
And breath by breath and death by death
We followed the chain of change.
Langdon Smith, in "Evolution" (1895)
Evolution
Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent, a religious education gives courage to the stupid to resist the authority of educated men, as has happened, for example, where the teaching of evolution has been made illegal. So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence; and in this respect ministers of religion follow gospel authority more closely than in some others.
Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932) p. 110.
Evolution
Organic evolution has its physical analogue in the universal law that the world tends, in all its parts and particles, to pass from certain less probable to certain more probable configurations or states. This is the second law of thermodynamics. It has been called the law of evolution of the world; and we call it, after Clausius, the Principle of Entropy, which is a literal translation of Evolution in Greek.
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, On Growth and Form (1917)
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