In the mid-nineteenth century Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace observed many organisms. Based on these observations, they arrived at an explanation, called ____, for how populations change through time.

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In the mid-nineteenth century Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace observed many organisms. Based on these observations, they arrived at an explanation, called ____, for how populations change through time. ​

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Darwin and Wallace independently developed the theory of natural selection, which explains how populations change over time due to differential survival and reproduction of individuals with advantageous traits.

In the Mid-Nineteenth Century Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace