Was charles darwin first to use the terms extinction, adaptation, variation?

Question

Was charles darwin first to use the terms extinction, adaptation, variation?

Answer 1

They were a competing scientist at the time Darwin was working on his theory, and it appears that he was forced to depose his publications in a rush before the other could do the same... So he get awarded the discovery, but does`nt means he was alone!

Look for Alfred Wallace works...

Answer 2

no

Answer 3

he wasn't even the first person to use "evolution" either!

Answer 4

Those words come from Latin so you might go back a few thousand years to find their beginning.

Answer 5

People already knew species go extinct from the fossils they've found.  One belief was that God killed all species at once, and created all different ones.  Lamark knew species adapted, but he didn't know it was genetic - for example, he thought giraffes got long necks from stretching and stretching til it became long.  Finally, variation was easy to see just by looking at the different plants and animals within a species.  All these terms were noticed and used, but Darwin was able to put ideas together and is popular for explaining natural selection.