This Day in History: Charles Darwin was born on this day in 1809. We know him for his work on evolution by means of natural selection. However, he was not the only one who came up with this idea. Alfred Russel Wallace also conceived of the same idea at the same time. Prior to them was Jean-Baptiste Lamarck who came out with his own theory of evolution. In fact, many over the centuries going back to the ancient Greeks thought about evolution. Botanists, dog breeders and food growers knew that they could tamper with and change flora and fauna over generations. It's why the banana we eat now is much different than a banana that was eaten a thousand years ago. However, all of these changes happened within that particular species (micro-evolution). We have never been able to observe one species changing into another (macro-evolution). Perhaps macro-evolution should join other scientific theories that aren't quite real or proven, such as parallel universes, panspermia, string theory, quantum mechanics, the big bang and the CDC's covid "two-mask" theory.
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