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As "Darwinism" became widely accepted in the 1870s, good-natured caricatures of him with an ape or monkey body symbolised evolution.
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As "Darwinism" became widely accepted in the 1870s, good-natured caricatures of him with an ape or monkey body symbolised evolution.

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  1. The principles of natural selection set out by Charles Darwin in The Origin of Species (1859) and other writings.
  2. The evolution and common ancestry of all living and extinct species resulting from gradual evolutionary mechanisms such as natural selection.

Darwinism is a term used for various different movements or concepts related to a greater or lesser extent to Charles Darwin's work on evolution. The meaning of Darwinism has changed over time, and depends on who is using the term.

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