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Darwin's 1859 theory: species evolve over generations through natural selection of favourable traits
England ๐ฌ๐ง 1859 Biology
Key Facts
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Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859): natural selection โ survival and reproduction of the fittest
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Evidence: fossil record, comparative anatomy (homologous structures), biogeography, molecular genetics (DNA)
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Alfred Russel Wallace independently developed the same theory as Darwin; they published jointly (1858)
๐ฌ Did you know? "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution" โ Theodosius Dobzhansky; modern genetics has completely confirmed Darwin's theory
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Biology
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1859
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Darwin's 1859 theory: species evolve over generations through natural selection of favourable traits