Charles Darwin Was Not the Only One to Conceive of Natural

question 10

Multiple Choice

Charles Darwin was not the only one to conceive of natural selection. Who published an article suggesting current species were descended from other species?

• A) Jean Baptiste Lamarck
• B) Erasmus Darwin
• C) Georges-Louis Leclerk de Buffon
• D) Alfred Russel Wallace
• E) John Scopes

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