Who was the first person to discover evolution?

Answer 1

Darwin and Wallace did observe evolution and believed it occured through the process of natural selection. This has been accepted by the scientific community, and was refined by molecular Biology and the disovery of the mechanims behind inheritance. Gregor Mendel gave us the idea of dominant and recessive genes.

However, while they are most prominently known in the history of evolutionary biology, Jean Baptiste Lamarck should be recognized for his work with evolution. It was because of Lamarck that scientists like Darwin and Wallace began to explore evolution as a plausible mechanism for the origin of the world's species.

Lamarck has been largely discredited due to his proposed mechanism of evolution of inheritance as acquired characteristics which has been shown to be incorrect. However, Lamarckian theory has some validity as environment actually affects genes. This was notably shown by the study of Dutch children's genes that were affected by the fact their grandmothers or even great grandmothers had been pregnant during the horrendous famine imposed on them during the second world war.

Answer 2

it was darwin. i heard that he observed evoloution in the 1800's. I also heard that he was british

Answer 3

Charles Darwin

Answer 4

no