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Special post for reaching 1000 followers on instagram! 

While Darwin is often credited as the father of the Theory of Evolution, it’d be more precise to say that he was the father of the Theory of Evolution “by Natural Selection”. 

Darwin’s genius was not in realizing that animals change over time, but in identifying the mechanisms by which these changes occur. 

The idea that animals evolve over generations was proposed by a number of scientists and philosophers in various forms. And today, we will look at Al Jahiz, who proposed the idea some 1000 years before our English naturalist.