The Race to Discover Evolution (and the Man Everyone Forgets)
Channel: Everything Science
Date: 2019-09-11

Everyone knows the story behind the discovery of natural selection. Charles Darwin set sail to the Galapagos, found some finches and *boom* just like that the puzzle was solved. 

Well, unfortunately, it's a bit more complicated than that.

The discovery of evolution wasn't a simple process and it turned into a race to discover the evolution and claim credit for the discovery.

While the discovery of evolution was centered around the Galapagos archipelago, the race really began half a world away on a different archipelago (the Malay archipelago) and with a different man entirely (Alfred Russel Wallace).

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