Hoxful Monsters

It will be all Charles Darwin this year,as it happens to his 200th Birth anniversary and “Origin of species” completes 150 years. Recently Nature Journal came out with “15 Evolutionary gems” as a tribute to Charles Darwin’s theory of Natural selection for Evolution and Lancet another leading journal also paid tribute to great Charles Darwin by releasing a special issue on Evolution called “Darwin’s Gifts”,to commemorate the two specials events in evolution this year.

Misconceptions and Myths regarding evolution:
Recently , arguably the greatest and most important book ever written “Origin of species” by Charles Darwin completed 150 years ,in which he gave compelling evidence for evolution. But still many people have either misunderstood evolution or even adamantly denied by a large proportion of the public. Infact evolution is as validated as some great laws of physics like that of Newton and plays a very important role in understanding physical world.
Countless fossil discoveries allow us to trace the evolution of today’s organisms from forms …

Darwin defined the term Evolution as “descent with modification.” In common terms, biological evolution is the process of change by which new species develop from preexisting species over time and in genetic terms, evolution can be defined as any change in the frequency of alleles in populations of organisms from generation to generation.

“Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution”. Theodosius Dobzhansky
Usually evolution and natural selection are regarded as synonyms ( because of popularity of Darwin and his concept), but Natural selection is one of …

Olivia Judson has written some excellent articles on her blog in NY times to celebrate 150 Years of Charles Darwin Natural selection.She gives her views on Darwin and Natural selection in four parts.she sights some wonderful examples about evolution in action.
Check them here
Read another interesting blog post by Snail’s Tales on Natural selection.

Here i share some fine quotes from some great minds:
“The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree… As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever branching and beautiful ramifications.” – …