Charles Lyell And Darwin

Register to read the introduction… Darwin derived the concept of the struggle for existence in part from Malthus's essay. He believed that creatures less fit for their environment would tend to die off. This would be called the struggle for existence. Some people thought that nature was a balanced system, but Darwin saw it as a mechanism. He believed the creatures that were best adapted would survive. Although Darwin agreed with Malthus on the struggle of individuals, he differed in opinion on Malthus's idea of the increase of population. Darwin (just from observation) did not believe that population would increase at a tremendous rate from year to year but believed it would stay somewhat constant.
Charles Lyell was a uniformitarian. He believed the earth had gone through changes by the same causes (earthquakes and volcanic eruptions) on the same scale we see today.
While he did believe that the earth had gone through many changes, Lyell believed in a steady-state view of the earth where there are simply fluctuations about a mean. He thought that the climate could someday become tropical everywhere, and animals such as reptiles would