Example of autobiography essay about yourself

Darwin’s emphasis on the “struggle for existence” as the basis for natural selection is one of the most misinterpreted ideas he ever developed.

Darwin had made it clear that his use of this Malthusian term was not one to be taken literally as meaning only competitive struggle but should rather be understood “in a large and metaphorical sense.”

As he explained in On the Origin of Species – and at greater length in his unpublished Natural Selection from which Origin was an abbreviated version – this term was to be understood as a metaphorical concept that incorporated multiple meanings.

These included “dependence of one being on another,” animals that “struggle with each other” over limited food resources, plants that “struggle for life against the drought” and that “struggle with other fruit-bearing plants, in order to tempt birds to devour and thus disseminate its seeds.”

Darwin’s concept was therefore an umbrel