GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -The theory of evolution is a shortened form of the term “theory of evolution by natural selection, ‘’ which was proposed by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace in the nineteenth century.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the early 19th century prior to Darwinism, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829) proposed his theory of the transmutation of species, the first fully formed theory of evolution.

Detailed explanation-3: -evolution, theory in biology postulating that the various types of plants, animals, and other living things on Earth have their origin in other preexisting types and that the distinguishable differences are due to modifications in successive generations.