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Developed a theory, Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics, which stated that traits arise in organisms because of their needs and somehow these traits are passed to their offspring. Wrote On the Origin of Species detailing his ideas on evolution and the mechanism whereby evolution could take place. Observed that far more animals are born than reach maturity, yet adult populations remains fairly consistent. Essay on population explains competition for resources resulted in high infant mortality rate, thus limiting population size. Discovered pairs of factors, genes, which control inheritable traits from experiments with true-breeding strains of garden peas. < < <