Darwinism
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Darwinism, named for the nineteenth-century English naturalist Charles Darwin, holds that natural selection is the directive or creative force of evolution. [1]
The theory of natural selection is one of two major evolutionary theories advanced by Darwin, the other being the theory of descent with modification.[2]
The modern theory of evolution based on Darwin's idea is sometimes called "Neo-Darwinism", or more formally "the modern synthesis".