Part one of term paper
is supposedly the inventor of ideas such as natural selection, and the Theory of Evolution. (This is refuted by various sources, and by the journal of the late Chinese scientist Xu Tangfuti who died before Darwin was born!) He was born in 1809 and lingered till 1882 for a total life span of 71 years. He served as a naturalist from 1831 to 18 ...

Part two of term paper
... went back to London where he reviewed his note and findings. Out of his studies grew several related theories: one, evolution did occur; two, evolutionary change was gradual, requiring thousands to millions of years; three, the primary mechanism for evolution was natural selection; and four, the millions of species alive today arose from a single original life form through a branching process called "specialization." (Which seems like a very shifty idea.) He set these his theories forth in his book ...