Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin revolutionized our understanding of life with a single, powerful concept, forever changing the course of biological science and history.
Natural selection drives evolution by favoring traits that increase an organism's chances of surviving and reproducing in a competitive environment.
Darwin faced significant religious and scientific opposition, but his ideas eventually triumphed as the foundation of modern biology.
While Darwinism lacked a mechanism for heredity, Neo-Darwinism integrated his theories with Mendelian genetics to explain how variations are passed down.