The goals of Darwin Day are to reach out and inform the public about the importance of evolution as the foundation of modern biology, the life and findings of Charles Darwin, and to promote scientific literacy in general.
As "major actors in modern society" Rogers reminds us that global-trotting companies have the potential to deeply affect the evolution of the civil foundation -- for good or for ill.
[ 1] Darwin's notion of a tree as a valid depiction of evolution became the foundation of the grand metaphor of the tree of life (TOL) that had been propounded as a generally adequate depiction of the entire history of life, above all, by Haeckel who expanded Darwin's schematic into an arborescent and picturesque tree [ 2].
The concept of evolution was the foundation of Miller's scientific thinking and laboratory logic, and his findings as a "pioneer prebiotic chemist" enriched the "body of knowledge" called the theory of evolution.
Other recipients include Steve Rissing, a biologist at Ohio State University who has been active on behalf of school board candidates who support the teaching of evolution and science museums that accept evolution as the foundation for modern biology.
In fact, acceptance of evolution, one of the foundations of modern science, is lower in the U.S. than in all but one of 34 industrialized countries (Miller et al. [2006]).
Therefore knowing the process of evolution and being able to construct realistic models of evolution is the foundation for being able to infer accurate phylogenetic relationships among species.
Darwin's theory of evolution is the foundation for comprehending biology and all living organisms (Dobzhansky 1973).
While there, he developed not only a theory of evolution but also the foundation of modern biogeography.
Few of the nation's biology teachers, the study found, directly tell students that evolution forms the foundation of modern biology.
If 'science' is correct, and evolution is the foundation of life, then there is no beauty.
