[mykalberta]

Fact is Darwin was the first to go on record and say it.

When you are the first at something it matters, its not that no one would have figured it out, people probably had but were to yellow bellied to say anything. Darwin had at least the truth of his conviction to be the first at a time when that truth wasnt popular.

Also, he isnt the father or whatever of human evolution, he simply states that living things evolve to adapt to their surroundings which they obviously do.