Question

Darwin in his ‘Theory of Natural Selection' did not believe in any role of which one of the following in evolution?

पर्याय

• survival of the fittest

• struggle for existence

• discontinuous variation

• Over production

Answer 1

Discontinuous variation

Explanation:

Darwin’s theory emphasised overproduction, struggle for existence and survival of the fittest, rather than sudden discontinuous variation. The latter is associated with de Vries’s mutation theory.