LIFE SCIENCE

OBJECTIVE LIFE SCIENCE

EVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who is considered the co-founder of evolution and said that the driving force for evolution was natural selection?
A
Alfred Wallace
B
Charles Darwin
C
Thomas Malthus
D
Gregor Mendel
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Charles Darwin (1809-1882) and Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) are jointly credited with coming up with the theory of evolution by natural selection, having co-published on it in 1858.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Wallace and Darwin differed in the theory of evolution in that Wallace believed plants and animals evolved to their environment and Darwin believed adaptations were driven by competition and that those organisms with traits that favored survival would pass those traits to their offspring.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -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.

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