{"id":7658,"date":"2019-05-22T15:59:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/darwinism\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:59:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:59:15","slug":"darwinism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/darwinism\/","title":{"rendered":"Darwinism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Darwin&#8217;s theory of natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase an individual&#8217;s ability to compete for resources, survive and reproduce. &nbsp;The problems for Darwin were how such genetic variations arose and how they were transmitted from one generation to the next. &nbsp;The answer to the first problem was random mutation, with chromosomal rearrangement and genetic recombination being added at a later date. &nbsp;As an answer to the second problem, Darwin invented a unit of inheritance that he termed &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-sis.org.uk\/DarwinsPangenesis.php\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.i-sis.org.uk\/DarwinsPangenesis.php&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gemmules<\/a>&#8216; (small, invisible carriers of inherited features) in his theory of pangenesis that was later replaced by Mendelian genetics in which the gene became the unit of heredity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"gene\">Gene<\/a>, <a href=\"genetic_-or_dna-_recombination\">Genetic (or DNA) recombination<\/a>, <a href=\"ethology\">Ethology<\/a>, <a href=\"mutation_-biology-\">Mutation (biology)<\/a>, <a href=\"mendelian_genetics\">Mendelian genetics<\/a>, <a href=\"modern_synthesis\">Modern synthesis<\/a>, <a href=\"natural_selection\">Natural selection<\/a>, <a href=\"neo-darwinism\">Neo-Darwinism<\/a>, <a href=\"phyletic_gradualism_and_punctuated_equilibrium\">Phyletic gradualism and punctuated equilibrium<\/a>, <a href=\"theory_of_molecular_evolution\">Theory of molecular evolution<\/a>, <a href=\"theory_of_natural_selection\">Theory of natural selection<\/a>, <a href=\"theory_of_sexual_selection\">Theory of sexual selection<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darwin&#8217;s theory of natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase an individual&#8217;s ability to compete for resources, survive and reproduce. &nbsp;The problems for Darwin were how such genetic variations arose and how they were transmitted from one generation to the next. &nbsp;The answer to the first problem was random mutation, with chromosomal rearrangement and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/darwinism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Darwinism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}