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Who wrote the book origin of species


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Lamarck

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Neo-Darwinism

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Darwin

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Weismann

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Solution

The correct option is C

Darwin


The correct option is C.

Explanation of the correct option:

  1. Charles Darwin was a famous evolutionary biologist who made significant contributions to science.
  2. On November 24, 1859, he released "Origin of Species."
  3. Darwin proposed the theory of natural selection suggests that:
  4. Each technology produces greater people able to survive.

Explanation of the incorrect options:

Option A:

  1. This was coined by Lamarck.
  2. Lamarck proposed the concept of use and disuse, which holds that when some organs become specially developed as a result of a requirement in the environment.
  3. The condition of development is hereditary and can be passed down to progeny.

Option B:

  1. The merger of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection,
  2. Gregor Mendel's theory of genetics as the basis for biological heredity and mathematical population genetics is known as Neo-Darwinism,
  3. Neo-Darwinism is also renowned as the contemporary evolutionary synthesis.

Option D:

  1. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Weismann examined how biological features formed and evolved in a variety of creatures, particularly insects and aquatic animals, in Germany.
  2. Weismann suggested a hypothesis of heredity based on the continuity of germ-plasm.

Final answer: Darwin wrote the book ‘Origin of species.’


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