He argued that the process of natural selection over many millions of years had led to the evolution of modern species from less complex forms of life. He states that individuals and species that had characteristics advantageous for survival had successfully reproduced, while others fell by the wayside.

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He argued that the process of “natural selection” over many millions of years had led to the evolution of modern species from less complex forms of life. He states that individuals and species that had characteristics advantageous for survival had successfully reproduced, while others fell by the wayside.

A	Charles Darwin
B	Herbert Spencer
C	Lester Frank Ward
D	David John Doddridge

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -The theory of natural selection was explored by 19th-century naturalist Charles Darwin. Natural selection explains how genetic traits of a species may change over time. This may lead to speciation, the formation of a distinct new species.

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: -Charles Darwin is primarily known as the architect of the theory of evolution by natural selection. With the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, he advanced a view of the development of life on earth that profoundly shaped nearly all biological and much philosophical thought which followed.

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