The Darwinian revolution is generally taken to be one of the key events in the history of Western science. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Darwin is deservedly given credit for the theory of biological evolution: he accumulated evidence demonstrating that organisms evolve and discovered the process, natural selection, by which they evolve. The first was in the transition from being a pseudo science to being a popular science. Nobody disputes Micro-Evolution. The publication of The Origin of the Species marked the midpoint of a complex process spanning 250 years and requiring the rejection of six assumptions. 176, Issue 4038, pp. May 1, 2010. The Darwinian revolution: Rethinking its meaning and significance Michael Ruse1 Department of Philosophy, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 The Darwinian revolution is generally taken to be one of the key events in the history of Western science. The Darwinian Revolution—24 absorbing lectures by award-winning Professor Frederick Gregory of the University of Florida—introduces you to the remarkable story of Darwin's ideas, how scientists and religious leaders reacted to them, and the sea of change in human thought that resulted. By Ernst Mayr. The Copernican revolution changed the way we think about the universe but in doing so it pushed humanity from its hallowed position at the centre of the universe. In recent years, however, the very notion of a scientific revolution has come under attack, and in the specific case of Charles Darwin and his Origin of Species there are serious questions about the nature of the change (if there was such) and the specifically Darwinian input. If we consider the revolution in a broad sense, from the beginning of the 18th century to the beginning of the 21st century, there are 2 major points at which we want to say that it is a Darwinian revolution. Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection isn't an idea with holes. This is Variations within a Kind, NOT upward evolution from simplicity into complexity as supposed by Darwinian Evolutionary Theory. Darwin's Theory of Evolution is the widely held notion that all life is related and has descended from a common ancestor: the birds and the bananas, the fishes and the flowers -- all related. The Darwinian Revolution. Article; Info & Metrics; eLetters; PDF; This is a PDF-only article. The Darwinian revolution changed the way we think about the animal kingdom but in doing so it placed us firmly within that kingdom; we became just one of many millions of other species. The Darwinian revolution is generally taken to be one of the key events in the history of Western science. Some, like William Whewell in the nineteenth century, thought it was all about observation and insisting on. WAS THERE A DARWINIAN REVOLUTION?. These are the questions tackled in this Element.