Which was Charles Darwin's contribution to the study of biology? He was the first person to recognize that organisms change over time. He believed that organisms adapted through the inheritance of acquired traits. He explained how traits are passed from parents to offspring. He proposed that natural selection is the primary mechanism of evolution.
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