LIFE SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -English naturalist Charles Darwin developed the idea of natural selection after a five-year voyage to study plants, animals, and fossils in South America and on islands in the Pacific. In 1859, he brought the idea of natural selection to the attention of the world in his best-selling book, On the Origin of Species.

Detailed explanation-2: -Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was a man of many talents-an explorer, collector, naturalist, geographer, anthropologist and political commentator. Most famously, he had the revolutionary idea of evolution by natural selection entirely independently of Charles Darwin.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ask most folks who came up with the theory of evolution, and they’ll tell you it was Charles Darwin. In fact, Alfred Russel Wallace, another British naturalist, was a co-discoverer of the theory-though Darwin has gotten most of the credit.