READ: Charles Darwin and Natural Selection

Lesson Summary

• Evolution is change in species over multiple generations.
• Natural selection is how evolution occurs.
• Adaptations are the result of natural selection.
• Charles Darwin is credited with developing the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection
• Darwin collected much of his evidence on a five year voyage around the world, with much of his data collected on the Galápagos Islands.
• The work of many others contributed to Darwin's theory.