Who read the joint paper of Darwin and Wallace " On the tendency of species to form varieties and perpetuation of varieties and species by means of natural selection"?
A
Darwin
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B
Wallace
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C
Darwin and Wallace
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D
Lyell and Hooke
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Solution
The correct option is D Lyell and Hooke Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel independently and unknown to one another conceived the same idea of natural selection. On 1 July 1858, Sir Charles Lyell and Dr. Joseph Hooker presented paper to the Linnean Society written by Wallace and Darwin independently on natural selection. Thus, the correct answer is 'Lyell and Hooke.'