Charles Darwin

One of the most important things to remember when contemplating the contributions that Darwin made is his insistence on the constancy of change. He demonstrated beyond any possibility of a doubt that life is change, that living forms develop constantly from one form to another. He was, of course, in general referring to the change that occurs between generations as the result of natural selection acting on the variability that exists among individuals in a species (Gould, 2002, p. 27). However, psychologists were quick to understand that Darwin's insistence on the powerful force of change in all living creatures had implications for human development as well.

Canadian psychologist Irwin Silverman argues that there were a number of reasons why psychologists found the evolutionary principles outlined by Darwin so appealing. The first of these was that they helped to bring to psychology (one of the "soft" sciences) something of the rigor of the ha

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