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Gradualism is Darwin’s proposition that the differences between even radically different organisms have evolved by small steps through intermediate forms, not by leaps

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Natural selection was Darwin’s brilliant hypothesis, that accounts for adaptations, features that appear “designed” to fit organisms to their environment.

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Alfred Russel Wallace - Who was collecting specimens in the Malay Archipelago, had independently conceived of natural selection

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Populational change is Darwin’s hypothesis that evolution occurs by changes in the proportions (frequencies) of different variant kinds of individuals within a population.

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Where, though, do these hereditary variations come from?

This was the great gap in Darwin’s theory, and he never filled it. The problem was serious because, according to the prevailing belief in blending inheritance, variation should decrease, not increase.