User: Who was the first to publish a paper on evolution?
Assistant: Charles Darwin was the first to publish a paper on evolution. His book On the Origin of Species was published in 1859, and he also wrote a book called The Descent of Man in 1871. Alfred Russel Wallace was the first to publish a paper on evolution, but he was not the first to publish a paper on the subject. He published his paper in 1858, but he did not publish a paper on the subject until 1858, and he was not the first to publish a paper on the subject.