Darwin and _____ presented the idea of natural selection simultaneously in 1859 to the Linnaean Society in London.
A)Alfred Russel Wallace
B)Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
C)Thomas Malthus
D)Gregor Mendel
E)Carolus Linnaeus

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Alfred Russel Wallace presented his ideas on natural selection in a letter to Charles Darwin in 1858, and Darwin published his own ideas in "On the Origin of Species" in 1859. The two men presented their ideas together at a meeting of the Linnaean Society in London later that same year. Lamarck, Malthus, Mendel, and Linnaeus all made significant contributions to biology, but they did not present the idea of natural selection simultaneously with Darwin.

Darwin and _____ Presented the Idea of Natural Selection Simultaneously