Question

Assertion: Alfred Wallace, who worked in the Malay Archipelago had also come to similar conclusions as Darwin around the same time.
Reason: Alfred himself had communicated his findings to Darwin in 1858 and their papers were read jointly at the Linnean Society of London.

• A. Both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of the assertion
• B. Both assertion and reason are true but the reason is not the correct explanation of the assertion
• C. Assertion is true but reason is false
• D. Both assertion and reason are false

Answer 1

The correct option is A Both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of the assertion

Charles Darwin (1809-1882) and a scientific contemporary of his, Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) jointly proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection in the paper “Origin of Species” in 1858. Although they both worked independently in two different islands,their findings were quite similar. Wallace was a great admirer of Darwin, so after gathering the evidence supporting his proposal for evolution by natural selection he sent it to Darwin, titled “On the tendencies of varieties to depart indefinitely from the original type” in 1858.
Darwin's friends Joseph Dalton Hooker and Charles Lyell advised Darwin to publish it jointly in the paper “Origin of Species".