Question

Which was an important influence on Darwin as he synthesized the concept of natural selection?

A. Buffon’s Multiple Centers of Creation

B. Mendel's Laws of Inheritance

C. Cuvier’s Catastrophism

D. The iguanas of the Galapagos Islands

Answer 1

Ans:- a) buffon's multiple centers of creation

Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon influenced Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's ideas of Natural Selection. He incorporated ideas of "lost species" that Darwin studied and related to fossils. Biogeography is now often used as a form of evidence for the existence of evolution.

other options

b) it tells about inheritance of trait from one generation to other. No relation with natural selection

C) In the first half of the 19th century, the French naturalist Georges Cuvier developed his theory of catastrophes. Accordingly, fossils show that animal and plant species are destroyed time and again by deluges and other natural cataclysms, and that new species evolve only after that.

D) Galapagos island show the evendence of ongoing divergent evolution