The principle of natural selection was first advanced by
A) Dmitry Belyaev.
B) Sigmund Freud.
C) Charles Darwin.
D) Steven Pinker.

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Charles Darwin is widely credited with being the first to advance the principle of natural selection in his seminal work, "On the Origin of Species." He observed how certain traits favored survival and reproduction in a given environment, and how these traits would be passed on to future generations through the process of natural selection.

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