State the main points of Darwin's theory of natural selection.

Organisms produce far more offspring than can survive, so there is a struggle for existence. Individuals of a species vary, and some variations are inherited. Those with variations better suited to the environment survive and reproduce more successfully, so those variations become commoner over generations, and in time new species arise.

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Explanation

Darwin could not explain the origin of variation, which Mendelian genetics later supplied.