A variance is an exception to one or more of the zoning restrictions on a piece of property. A variance is different from a nonconforming use, which permits existing structures and uses to continue when zoning is first instituted.
The book, On The Origin Of Species,  suggested  that organisms evolve through the process of natural selection.opulations evolve as the individual organisms less able to survive in the current environment die and fail to reproduce. That is natural selection.
Darwin's theory of evolution. Charles Darwin was an English naturalist who studied variation in plants and animals during a five-year voyage around the world in the 19th century. He explained his ideas on evolution in a book called, 'On the Origin of Species', published in 1859.