Darwin and Wallace discovered natural selection without knowledge of an important field of biology that is very much a part of biological evolution.What essential part of biological evolution was poorly understood when they first presented natural selection to the world?
A)geology
B)genetics
C)anatomy
D)physiology

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Genetics was poorly understood when Darwin and Wallace presented natural selection to the world. The field of genetics did not emerge until several decades later, with the rediscovery of Gregor Mendel's work on inheritance in the early 1900s. This delayed the understanding of how traits were passed down from generation to generation and the mechanism of genetic variation that natural selection acts upon.

Darwin and Wallace Discovered Natural Selection Without Knowledge of an Important