ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
‘The Origin of Species’ is written by-
A
Newton
B
Charles Darwin
C
Galileo
D
Mary Curie
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: -Darwin’s first two, relatively complete, explicit articulations of his theorizing on evolution were his Essay of 1844 and On the Origin of Species published in 1859.

Detailed explanation-3: -What’s it about? The Origin Of Species (1859) is Charles Darwin’s magnum opus. These blinks outline a theory of how traits are selected by nature, where the tremendous diversity of life on earth came from and how animals and plants came to be distributed across the planet.

Detailed explanation-4: -Charles Darwin which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology is the author of ‘The Origin of Species’. Darwin’s book introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection.

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