BBC Science The Theory of (nearly) Everything 2019

(Martin Jones) #1

Finches that Darwin used as evidence
for a theory of evolution rest on his
masterwork On the Origin of Species


Many theories have a long history,
but few are as rich as evolution.
Even the ancient Greeks touched
on evolution before the great
thinkers of the 18th and 19th
centuries bore it out with
a remarkable idea:
natural selection.

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