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Evolution was proposed almost simultaneously by Wallace, so it couldn't have been that huge of a leap.


Newton and Leibniz discovered calculus at roughly the some time as well and we typically see it as a huge leap.


It was a huge leap because it was the first time somebody offered an explanation for the diversity of life, other than "god made it so".




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