Darwinism
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Darwinism, named for the nineteenth-century English naturalist Charles Darwin, holds that natural selection in combination with random mutation 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 version of the theory of evolution, based on Darwin's original theory, is sometimes called "Neo-Darwinism".