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   From: Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com   
      
   On 8/19/2025 9:20 PM, JTEM wrote:   
   >   Dawn Flood wrote:   
   >   
   >> Charles Darwin was the principle originator "of the theory of   
   >> evolution by natural selection";   
   >   
   > No, Wallace came up with the "Natural Selection" and Darwin never even   
   > believed in evolution. As I pointed out, his one theory was pangenesis   
   > and it worked nicely with those who banned evolution, outlawed it.   
   >   
   > Darwin's word wasn't evolution, it was transmutation. You did previously   
   > pretend to know this.   
   >   
      
   I have read the Origin.  The phrase that Darwin used for "evolution" was   
   "descent with modification".  Here's the Google AI explanation:   
      
   "Descent with modification" is a core concept in Charles Darwin's theory   
   of evolution, as presented in On the Origin of Species. It describes the   
   idea that all life on Earth is related through common ancestors, and   
   that species have changed over time through a process of gradual   
   modification. This modification is driven by natural selection, where   
   advantageous traits become more common in populations over generations.   
      
   Here's the Google AI explanation for "transmutation":   
      
   The term "transmutation of species" refers to the idea, prominent before   
   Darwin's theory of evolution, that species could change into other   
   species over time. This concept, also known as transformism, was a   
   precursor to modern evolutionary theory. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, for   
   example, proposed a theory of transmutation in 1809, suggesting that   
   species evolve through the inheritance of acquired characteristics.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)