After Darwin concluded his voyage on the Beagle, he proposed that the process of natural selection was a mechanism for

A. evolution.
B. overpopulation of finches on the Galapagos Islands.
C. artificial selection.
D. speciation.
E. sexual selection.


Answer: A

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