What is the significance of the work by William Wells (American physician who drew the artificial and natural selection parallel in the 1830s) and Patrick Matthew (Scottish botanist who challenged Darwin on priority)?
A. they show that Darwin has been given too much credit for his theory-several others had exactly the same idea and produced just as much research
B. because they did not follow up their ideas with much research, their work has no significance for our modern understanding of how evolutionary theory developed in the 19th century
C. they show that Darwin's original idea about natural selection was wrong (Wells and Matthews,in essence, corrected Darwin's erroneous ideas)
D. they show that the zeitgeist in the 19th century was favorable to evolutionary thinking
D. they show that the zeitgeist in the 19th century was favorable to evolutionary thinking
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