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| | Anne's Anti-Quackery & Science Blog |
 | | Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, working independently in the early- to mid-1800s, each came up with the concept of "natural selection." Each sought to explain the astounding diversity of life he found in exotic places, Darwin in the Galapagos Islands and Wallace in Brazil. |
 | | By some accident of nature whose workings neither man could explain, an organism may exhibit a variation in shape, color or body function new to the species. |
 | | These include not only genes for tissues they all share, such as muscle, which is not such a surprise, but also the genes that go into basic body-planning (specifying head and tail, front and back) and appendage-building (making things that stick out from the body, such as antennae, fins, legs and arms). |
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