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1. In 1858 the theory of evolution by means of natural selection was born. By the time of the publication of the two papers by Charles Robert Darwin (1809–1882) and Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), Darwin was already a well established and respected scientist who had been thinking about evolution for a long time, at least since his world voyage in HMS Beagle from 1831 to 1836. In contrast, as far...
Natural selection is one of the central mechanisms of evolutionary change and is the process responsible for the evolution of adaptive features. Without a working knowledge of natural selection, it is impossible to understand how or why living things have come to exhibit their diversity and complexity. An understanding of natural selection also is becoming increasingly relevant in practical contexts,...
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