The concept of natural selection, which proposed that genes of a species are not distributed evenly among the offspring, thus enabling certain members of the species to survive while others die out, was developed by ________.
A) Charles Darwin
B) Herbert Spencer
C) William Ogburn
D) Edmund Wilson

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The concept of natural selection was developed by Charles Darwin in his book "On the Origin of Species" in 1859. Herbert Spencer coined the phrase "survival of the fittest" to describe the concept of natural selection, but he did not develop the theory itself. William Ogburn and Edmund Wilson were sociologists and not involved in the development of the theory of natural selection.

The Concept of Natural Selection, Which Proposed That Genes of a Species