Please Name the Error and Correct Appropriately, Using the Footnote Supplied

Plagiarism Test

Original passage:

Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.[1]

Please name the error and correct appropriately, using the footnote supplied:

1. Name of error:

Darwin points out that the struggle for existence nevertheless exhibits a certain sublimity, in that from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.1

2. Name of error:

Darwin thinks that his theory that life arises from the most elemental forms to the complexity of the animal world is nothing less than awe-inspiring. This is so even though the survival of the fittest inevitably involves the massive destruction of weaker life-forms. He thinks that the struggle for existence and natural selection nevertheless yield the most sublime result.

3. Name of error:

According to Darwin, evolution is primarily a war of nature in which many species are destroyed from famine and death. But all the destruction is for the better because the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, the higher animals, is the result. There is definitely grandeur in this view of life. It must evoke our wonderment how from so simple a beginning so many endless forms have been evolved.

4. Name of error:

Darwin developed the theory of evolution, which optimistically holds that from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life.

5. Name of error:

Natural selection operates by weaker life-forms being out-competed by stronger. In this war of nature natural selection ensures that those species better adapted to their environment will survive and pass their genetic inheritance on to their offspring and thence to future generations.

[1]Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species, in Darwin: The Indelible Stamp, ed. James D. Watson (Philadelphia: Running Press, 2005), p. 601.