question_answer 56)

  The 'Origin of Species' is written by (a) Linnaeus                       (b) Darwin                           (c) Haeckel                          (d) Whittaker

Answer:

  (b) Charles Darwin, an English naturalist, first described the idea of evolution in his book 'The Origin of Species', published in 1859. According to him, most of the life forms present today have developed by an accumulation of changes in body design over a period of time through natural selection and are more complex than their ancestral forms.