Question

Which one provides correct sequence of events in origin of new species according to Darwinism?
1. Natural selection
2. Variations and their inheritance
3. Survival of the fittest
4. Struggle for existence

• A. 1, 2, 3, 4
• B. 2, 3, 1, 4
• C. 3, 4, 1, 2
• D. 4, 2, 3, 1

Answer 1

Answer: (D)

4, 2, 3, 1

Charles Darwin was a British naturalist who proposed the theory of biological evolution by natural selection. In the Origin of Species, Darwin claimed that there was a continual ’struggle for existence’ in nature and there are many variations and inheritance from species to species, in which only the fittest would survive. For Darwin, the inevitability of a struggle for survival was the key to evolution by ‘natural selection’.

So, the correct answer is '4,2,3,1'.