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+title: How species arise
+kind: problem
+status: solved
+tier: V3
+year: 1809
+statement: How do the varieties of living things come to exist and fit their surroundings?
+space: heredity
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+Natural selection acting on heritable variation explains adaptation without a designer. Darwin had no mechanism of inheritance, and Mendel's genetics, rediscovered in 1900, supplied it. The modern synthesis combined the two with population genetics.
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+*Evidence tier V3 is the import default for a result the curation records as settled in the published record. No formal proof or certificate is attached to this page yet.*
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+Closed 1859, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace; modern synthesis, 1930s–40s.
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+## Sources
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+- [Wikipedia: Natural selection](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_selection)
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+[[Space:heredity|Heredity and the code]] · [[Continent:life|Life]]
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Natural selection acting on heritable variation explains adaptation without a designer. Darwin had no mechanism of inheritance, and Mendel's genetics, rediscovered in 1900, supplied it. The modern synthesis combined the two with population genetics.
Evidence tier V3 is the import default for a result the curation records as settled in the published record. No formal proof or certificate is attached to this page yet.
Closed 1859, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace; modern synthesis, 1930s–40s.