Darwin turned science upside down when he proposed natural selection as the driver for evolution.  So, as companion to the videos of the month about Darwin’s theory of evolution, our Science Basics for the next three months will focus on Natural Selection. 

In his book On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin outlined the theory of evolution by means of natural selection. But what was Darwin’s purpose behind such an idea? And how did this concept permeate the scientific community so thoroughly?