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Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English.
I'm Rob.
And I'm Neil.
Hello.
Hello, Neil.
Today, we're talking about evolution.
Now, the man most people think of when talking about evolution is, of course, Charles Darwin.
He was a bit of a genius, wasn't he?
He was.
Evolution means the way living things change and develop over millions of years.
And a genius has great and unusual skills or abilities in a particular subject or area.
Well, Charles Darwin was a clever man,
but I happen to know that another man actually came up with the same idea,
but many years before he did.
Now, so how do you know about that then, clever clogs?
That's someone who thinks they know everything.
What was his name?
Well, his name was Patrick Matthew.