Multiple Choice
Why is Charles Darwin's book On the Origin of Species (1859) considered an important contribution to modern science?
A) It first coined the concept of evolution.
B) It synthesized information from diverse scientific fields in order to document and explain evolutionary change.
C) It was immediately and widely accepted by the scientific community as presenting the mechanism for evolutionary change.
D) It proposed the use of the scientific method for the first time.
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