Many people think that Charles Darwin first
thought of the idea of natural selection.
However, others prior to Darwin described
the concept, although they sometimes used
slightly different terminology.
For instance, Carl Linnaeus, the creationist
‘father of taxonomy’ wrote of a ‘struggle
for survival’ in nature.
Similarly, James Hutton wrote about the concept
of natural selection.
Probably the most influential character was
Edward Blyth, an English chemist and zoologist
who wrote major articles on natural selection
two decades before Darwin published the Origin
of Species.
Darwin differed in trying to use the concept
of natural selection to promote the idea of
unlimited change.
However, modern studies of natural selection
have revealed that it is limited.
It can only select between variations that
already exist—it is incapable of producing
the new genetic information required for true
evolutionary change to occur, such as growing
feathers on a reptile.
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