1000 Years Before Darwin, Islamic Scholars Were Writing About Natural Selection
This is like saying the pre-socratic Greek philosophers "discovered" the atom. Their "discovery" was just vague speculation.<p>Darwin didn't just say "evolution happens", he demonstrated it. Before him no one else demonstrated it.<p>Surely, a lot scholars speculated about evolution long before Darwin. One of them was Erasmus Darwin, Charles grandfather.<p>But that misses the whole point: no other scholar was able to embed a theory of evolution into the scientific body of knowledge. More than discovering it, Darwin's achievement was the clear and irrefutable formulation of it.