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[Revised entry by Peter Gildenhuys on March 4, 2024.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography]
Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace are the two co-discoverers of natural selection (Darwin a Wallace 1858), though, between the two, Darwin is the principal theorist of the notion whose most famous work on the topic is On the Origin of Species (Darwin 1859). For Darwin, natural selection is a drawn-out, complex process involving multiple interconnected causes. Natural selection requires variation in a population of organisms. For the process to work, at least some of that variation must be heritable and passed on to…

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