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Uncover the evidence for evolution and Charles Darwin and Theodosius Dobzhansky’s evolutionary theories

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Below is the article summary. For the full article, see evolution.
point mutation
mutation Summary
Mutation, an alteration in the genetic material (the genome) of a cell of a living organism or of a virus that is more or less permanent and that can be transmitted to the cell’s or the virus’s descendants. (The genomes of organisms are all composed of DNA, whereas viral genomes can be of DNA or
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George Gaylord Simpson Summary
George Gaylord Simpson was an American paleontologist known for his contributions to evolutionary theory and to the understanding of intercontinental migrations of animal species in past geological times. Simpson received a doctorate from Yale University in 1926. He chose for the subject of his
Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Haeckel Summary
Ernst Haeckel was a German zoologist and evolutionist who was a strong proponent of Darwinism and who proposed new notions of the evolutionary descent of human beings. He declared that ontogeny (the embryology and development of the individual) briefly, and sometimes necessarily incompletely,
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Theodosius Dobzhansky Summary
Theodosius Dobzhansky was a Ukrainian-American geneticist and evolutionist whose work had a major influence on 20th-century thought and research on genetics and evolutionary theory. The son of a mathematics teacher, Dobzhansky attended the University of Kiev (1917–21), where he remained to teach.