AP BIOLOGY

EVOLUTION

DARWIN’S THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What was the name of the scientist who wrote a book called On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection?
A
Lamarck
B
Einstein
C
Washington
D
Darwin
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -1859: Darwin Published On the Origin of Species, Proposing Continual Evolution of Species. The first printing of Charles Darwin’s book, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, sold out in a matter of days.

Detailed explanation-2: -On 24th November 1859 the book ‘The Origin of Species’ was published and this famous book is written by Charles Darwin.

Detailed explanation-3: -His On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859) is a sustained argument showing that the diversity of organisms and their characteristics can be explained as the result of natural processes. … Darwin published his monumental books On the Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871).

Detailed explanation-4: -Darwin proposed that species can change over time, that new species come from pre-existing species, and that all species share a common ancestor. In this model, each species has its own unique set of heritable (genetic) differences from the common ancestor, which have accumulated gradually over very long time periods.

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