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A criminologist says he has found evidence to back claims that Charles Darwin stole his revolutionary theory of evolution from a Scottish naturalist.<\/p>\n
Dr Mike Sutton says his research shows \u201coverwhelming\u201d similarities between On the Origin of Species<\/i> and an earlier work by Perthshire-raised Patrick Matthew.<\/p>\n
Darwin revolutionised understanding of the natural world, explaining that, rather than being the result of divine creation, life developed from a common ancestor by gradual evolution.<\/p>\n
In 1859, having observed such creatures as the giant Galapagos tortoise, he published his book, spelling out the theory of a \u201cprocess of natural selection\u201d. But 28 years earlier Matthew had published On Naval Timber And Arboriculture<\/i>, which expounded similar findings through his theory of the \u201cNatural Process of Selection\u201d.<\/p>\n
Sutton, whose<\/p>\n<\/div>\n