Could Darwin Have Patented The Theory Of Evolution?

February 12 this year marks the 213th birthday of Charles Robert Darwin, known as the "Father of the Theory of Evolution" according to which evolution of the species is driven by a process of natural selection. Namely, a process by which random variations in a subject's phenotype (i.e., characteristics) that increase the suitability of the subject to a changing environment and its ability to reproduce, are genetically maintained in the population and cause an evolution and creation of new species.

As exciting and revolutionary as the theory of evolution has been (and still is), Darwin did not "invent" it and it cannot be regarded as an "invention".

An invention is a creative achievement which usually develops from a hypothesis, a scientific discovery, or an experimental discovery, and always includes an element of human intervention. The hypothesis or the scientific discovery by themselves are not an invention. They cannot be owned by anyone and can certainly not