| DEVELOPMENT | The result of evolution |
| DARWIN | Josiah Wedgwood's grandson who was the naturalist on the five-year Beagle voyage and later published his theory of evolution in On the Origin of Species (6) |
| THEORY | Darwin's On The Origin Of Species put forward natural selection as the mechanism in his ... of evolution |
| SCOPES | John T ___, central figure in a 1925 trial related to the teaching of the theory of evolution |
| FINCH | A fringilline songster of the bull, chaff, gold, green, haw or rose variety, whose beak variations on the Galapagos Islands inspired a Darwinian theory of evolution (5) |
| LAMARCKIAN | Relating to the deviser of an early theory of evolution |
| CHARLESDARWIN | His theory of evolution has been challenged by the non-scientific notion of intelligent design (7,6) |
| ORIGIN | On the - of Species; Charles Darwin's theory of evolution (6) |
| NATURAL | - Selection; Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in On the Origin of Species (7) |
| GALAPAGOS | Group of islands in the Pacific whose unique fauna led Darwin to formulate his theory of evolution (9) |
| DARWINISM | Theory of evolution of species (9) |
| CREATIONISM | One who denies the theory of evolution (11) |
| LAMARCK | Jean-Baptiste ___ 1744-1829, French naturalist who worked in the field of evolution (7) |
| ZOONOMIA | Work by Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles, in which he explored early idea of evolution (8) |
| STAR | Type of celestial body whose stages of evolution can include red giant, planetary nebula, white dwarf, supernova and black hole (4) |
| ETHOLOGY | Science could become religious study if the origin of evolution is dropped |
| DARWINIAN | Indian war breaks out with a sort of theory of evolution (9) |
| OVULE | The start of evolution, perhaps, from an undeveloped seed (5) |
| DEVRIES | Hugo ___, Dutch botanist who developed the mutation theory of evolution |
| ALFRED | _ Bussel Wallace formulated his theory of evolution by natural selection independently of, and before publication by, Darwin (6) |
