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The idea of ‘Natural Selection’ as the prime process of evolutionary change was reached
 

Option: 1

Independently by Darwin and Wallace in 1990
 


Option: 2

By Chares  Darwin in 1866
 


Option: 3

By Alfred Wallace in 1901
 


Option: 4

Independently by Darwin and Wallace in 1859
 


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Theories of Evolution: Darwinism or Natural Selection -

 

The idea of ‘Natural Selection’ as the prime process of evolutionary change was reached independently by Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace in 1859. Although, Darwin received the ideas from Alfred Wallace who was working on the Malay Archipelago and put forth all these ideas in the Journal of Proceedings of Linnean Society in 1859 and published his observations in a book titled the “The Origin of Species by Natural Selection”. Hence, the correct option is (d).
 

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