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Question
The famous book "The Origin of Species" was written by ______.
Options
Carl Linnaeus
Charles Darwin
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Gregor Mendel
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Solution
The famous book “The Origin of Species” was written by Charles Darwin.
Explanation:
In 1859, Darwin published his famous book “The Origin of Species” in which he proposed the idea of natural selection.
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