The Origin of Species is a biological work that Darwin expounded the theoretical basis of biological evolution at that time. In this book, he wrote down all the research on biology for more than 20 years and expounded his views on biological evolution. Darwin believed that species are not static, but develop step by step from low to high. The fittest will survive, and the unsuitable will be eliminated naturally. Natural selection is the driving force of evolution. Darwin believed that the traits beneficial to a species will mutate in the future, the favorable variation adapted to the environment will be preserved and continue to develop, the unfavorable variation not adapted to the environment will be eliminated, and the organism will become extinct. Therefore, even a small variation, if accumulated, will cause significant differences, thus forming subspecies and even new species of this species.

Darwin, taken at 1869.

After the publication of the Origin of Species, it was snapped up by the general public and caused great repercussions in the society at that time. From Darwin's point of view in the book, Darwin did not talk about the origin of human beings. The Origin of Species was actually published by 187 1, and the explanation of human origin is "human".

In this book, based on the idea of the origin of species, Darwin first affirmed that human beings originated from animals, and then explained the process of animals gradually evolving into adults with the view of "natural selection, survival of the fittest". However, Darwin's animals were not monkeys. Important things must be said three times:

Darwin's animals are not monkeys;

Darwin's animals are not monkeys;

Darwin's animals are not monkeys;

Darwin believed that man evolved from apes, and he affirmed this view with the fossils of apes unearthed at that time. He also pointed out that the close relatives of human beings should be apes, and expounded that apes should not be confused with the existing apes. They have embarked on different development paths and are different from apes.

So Darwin never said that humans evolved from monkeys.

After Darwin put forward the theory of biological evolution, biologists made drastic supplements and modifications to the theory of evolution in the next 100 years, and gradually formed a modern system of biological evolution. The source power of biological evolution is gene mutation, which is random and has good and bad results. There is no distinction between advanced and low-level biological evolution, and creatures that can adapt to environmental changes are king; Species are not always increasing, but sometimes more and sometimes less; Every creature evolved from another creature before, and the creatures on the earth have a common ancestor.

Neither classical evolutionism nor modern evolutionism has ever said that man was changed by monkeys, so don't always say "Darwin said that man was changed by monkeys" or "evolutionism said that man was changed by monkeys" in the future, remember! None of them said anything.