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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

individuals. However, unques-
tionably, this mechanism will
not cause deer to evolve and
transform themselves into
another living species, for
instance, horses.
Therefore, the mechanism
of natural selection has no
evolutionary power. Darwin
was also aware of this fact and
had to state this in his book
The Origin of Species:

Natural selection can do noth-
ing until favourable individual
differences or variations
occur. 103

Lamarck's Impact

So, how could these "favor-
able variations" occur? Darwin
tried to answer this question
from the standpoint of the
primitive understanding of sci-
ence at that time. According to
the French biologist Chevalier
de Lamarck (1744-1829), who
lived before Darwin, living
creatures passed on the traits

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