Biology
Grade-8
Easy

Question

Charles Darwin was a __________ naturalist.

  1. French
  2. English
  3. Dutch
  4. Greek

hintHint:

The process of natural selection was first described by Charles Darwin in 1859, in his book named “On the Origin of Species”.

The correct answer is: English


    Darwin was an English naturalist of the 19th century whose ideas helped explain how the many varied species on Earth could be descended from a single ancestral species. 

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