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Dawin's theory of natural selection

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(i) Charles Darwin, an English biologist pulished the theory of natural selection, which preaches the survival of the fittest.
(ii) According to him, all organisms reproduce prolifically.
(iii) These organism compete with each other and only those organisms who show modification, sustain long.
(iv) Natural selection also plays important role because nature selects only those organisms which are fit to live and the rest perish.
(v) Thse sustained and selected organism reproductive and give rise to new species with own specific charactersistics.
(vi) This theory was widely accepted for long duration, however, it had some objections to it.
(vii) Irrespective of all these objections, Darwin's work on evolution has been a milestone.,
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