Yekaterinburg, Russia

Dynamical Evolution of Planetary Systems

Language: English Studies in English
Subject area: biology
University website: urfu.ru/en/
4 years
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.
Planetary
Planetary means relating to a planet or planets. It can also refer to:
Evolution
Aristotle especially, both by speculation and observation... reached something like the modern idea of a succession of higher organizations from lower, and made the fruitful suggestion of "a perfecting principle" in Nature. With the coming in of Christian theology this tendency toward a yet truer theory of evolution was mainly stopped, but the old crude view remained...
Andrew Dickson White, A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, Ch.1 (1896)
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.
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