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DARWINIAN
DARWINIAN
ScnMaster
of Charles Robert
Darwin
(1809 - 1882),
English
naturalist and author who originated the
theory
of
evolution
by
natural selection
. This
theory
holds
that all species of plants and animals
developed
from earlier forms by
hereditary
transmission
of slight variations in successive generations, and that the forms which survive are those that are best adapted to the
environment
.
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