Darwin Better Understood the Mechanism for Natural Selection After He

question 46

Multiple Choice

Darwin better understood the mechanism for natural selection after he read a book by ______________ on the rate of growth of populations.

• A)Alfred Wallace
• B)Charles Lyell
• C)Thomas Malthus
• D)Jean Lamarck

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