Question

Who gave the concept of natural selection? How does the process of natural selection relate to evolution?

Answer 1

Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace jointly proposed the concept of natural selection. 

Natural selection serves as the primary driving mechanism of evolution. Through natural selection, organisms with advantageous traits survive, reproduce, and pass those traits to their offspring, causing a population’s genetic makeup to gradually shift over generations and ultimately leading to the formation of new species (evolution).