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Diversity in Living Organisms — Science STD 9 — Question

Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 9ScienceDiversity in Living Organisms1 Mark
MCQ
The ‘Origin of Species’ is written by:
  • A
    Linnaeus.
  • ✓
    Darwin.
  • C
    Hackel.
  • D
    Whittaker.
✓

Answer

Correct option: B.
Darwin.

Charles Darwin, an English naturalist, first described the idea of evolution in his book ‘The Origin of Species’, published in $1859.$ According to him, most of the life forms present today have developed by an accumulation of changes in body design over a period of time through natural selection and are more complex than their ancestral forms.

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