What was the contribution of the scientist Alfred Wallace?

  • A
    He proposed the theory of inheritance of acquired characters.
  • B
    He worked in the Malay Archipelago and independently arrived at the same conclusions as Darwin regarding natural selection.
  • C
    He discovered the laws of inheritance through experiments on pea plants.
  • D
    He proposed the mutation theory of evolution.

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