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Charles Robert Darwin was a famous English naturalist. He is the author of the scientific theory now known as the Theory of Evolution, or Darwin’s theory. His work On the Origin of Species was published in the year of 1985 contained new scientific ideas and was very trustful and popular during dozens of years. Nowadays many scientists controvert the theory of evolutions. It is true that new researches give us a lot of new information. Some theories turn to be false. But anyway Darwin’s contribute to biology is great. Let us discuss the impact Darwin exerted on modern biology.
Ernst Mayr discusses this question in his article “Darwin’s Influence on Modern Thought”. The article appeared at the “Scientific American” in July, 2000. At the beginning of the article, the author mentioned that many researchers, scientists and other famous people were “in and out of favor”. I agree with him that zeitgeist is changing with time.
Ernst Mayr is focusing on Darwin’s contribution in to two fields of science – evolutionary biology, the philosophy of science; and the most important contribute is the influence at the modern zeitgeist.
Darwin was the first scientist who “introduced historicity into science”. He discovered that evolutionary biology – in contrast with another science like, for example, physics – has a historical element; moreover, we can name it “the historical science”. It is Darwin’s contribution to the field of the philosophy of science.
Further dr. Mayr is writing about some major Darwin’s contributions to the evolutionary biology. I want to give a quote here: “…The first is the non- constancy of species, or the modern conception of evolution itself. The second is the notion of branching evolution, implying the common descent of all species of living things…”
Also Darwin affirmed that the process of evolution suppose to be gradual and without breaks. He discovered that the main motive power of the process of evolution is the natural selection. Mayr devoted a few paragraphs to this part of Darwin’s theory. What is the natural selection? “…It consists of two parts, a random generation of variation followed by a non-random selection among the variation…”
This science idea was also a new one.

Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace discovered it. They were the first scientists who started a new direction at the biology. No one before never tried to explore the history of biology and the origins of human beings at that way. Until the year of 1859 another kind of ideas were popular among scientists.
The next section of the Mayr’s article is titled as “The Darwinism Zeitgeist”. The author is discussing different aspects of Darwinism at that part. First of all, Darwin was almost the first scientist who rejected all “divine” aspects at the fields of science. Everything is explained by natural selection.
Also Darwinism rejects typology. What does it means? Typology is the concept of the stability and unchangeable world that is supporting by its multiplicity. Darwin brushed this idea aside. He “completely rejected typological thinking and introduced instead the entirely different concept now called population thinking”. It means that all groups of organisms – and also humans’ population – are populations. The scientist refused from the idea about the constancy of populations and performed the “explanatory interpretation in science”.
We can say that Darwin created ‘the new anthropocentrism” – the new type of humanity.
At the end of his article, Mayr is resuming all the pros and cons about the theory of Darwin. He is admitting that the theory is just a theory and Darwin based it on concept rather than the law. But anyway the great scientist created the new branch of biology and also the new principles that still influence on the way of people’s thinking. And what the main, Darwin’s ideas still influent on the minds of scientists all over the world.

 
Work cited
Mayr, Ernst. Darwin’s Influence on Modern Thought. Scientific American. July, 2000.