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HEREDITAS ›› 2009, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (12): 1171-1176.doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1005.2009.01.001

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Charles Robert Darwin:The great founder of scientific evolutionism

LIANG Qian-Jin, BIN Jie, ZHANG Gen-Fa   

  1. College of Life Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
  • Received:2009-10-10 Revised:2009-10-26 Online:2009-12-10 Published:2009-12-10
  • Contact: ZHANG Gen-Fa E-mail:gfzh@bnu.edu.cn

Abstract:

Today, we celebrated 200 years since Charles Darwin, one of the world's most creative and influential thinkers, was born. And there happens to be the 150th anniversary of the publication of his famous book, On the Origin of Species. It is verified that On the Origin of Species is an immortal classic book and is still guiding the study of anagenesis in life science as the development of natural science from then on, and even though most of the ideas in the book are well-known at the present age. In the article, we recall the brilliance and predomination life of Darwin, a great sage with rich scientific achievements, review briefly the novel discoveries and theories after him in the field, and then elucidate the focal points and perspectiveas in near future study of evolution.

Key words: Charles Robert Darwin, the origin of species, evolutionism