Interest and anticipation builds to a fevered pitch leading up to the Oscar telecast in February, when hundreds of millions of movie lovers tune in to watch the glamorous ceremony and learn who will receive the highest honors in filmmaking. For a complete list of winners for the 89th Oscars, click here.
Darwin and Wallace develop similar theory. Darwin began formulating his theory of natural selection in the late 1830s but he went on working quietly on it for twenty years. He wanted to amass a wealth of evidence before publicly presenting his idea.
The basic mechanisms of evolution include natural selection, genetic drift and mutation. Natural selection is a process in which the population of organisms that have adapted to their environment increases more than the population of less well-adapted forms. This concept was first explained in Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.