Charles Darwin's Book on the Origin of Species (1859) Was

question 18

Multiple Choice

Charles Darwin's book On the Origin of Species (1859) was considered an important contribution to modern science because it

• A) coined the concept of evolution.
• B) synthesized information from diverse scientific fields in order to document evolutionary change.
• C) was immediately and widely accepted by the scientific community as the mechanism for evolutionary change.
• D) proposed the use of the scientific method for the first time.

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