Before Darwin, ____.
A) no one had conceived of biological evolution
B) Lamarck wrote about biological evolution, but had the mechanism wrong
C) Malthus developed a theory of evolution
D) Lamarck proposed the idea of natural selection, but was ignored
E) Malthus demonstrated the progression of fossils in sedimentary rocks

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Before Charles Darwin, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck had indeed written about biological evolution, proposing a theory where organisms change over time due to their habits and the use and disuse of organs, though his mechanism (inheritance of acquired characteristics) was incorrect.