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How evolution begins?

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Anonymous

8y ago
Updated: 2/21/2022

This question can be interpreted several different ways, and you might need to clarify for better answer.

How did the theory of evolution begin? Although many believe that Charles Darwin was the first to hypothesize the theory of evolution, many Eastern civilizations believed that organisms changed over time (which is basically evolution). What Darwin did was put a supported process behind the observational fact that organisms change over time. He popularized his theory with the publication of "On the Origin of Species," which led to the wide-spread acceptance of evolution emerging in the mid 1940's among the Western scientific community.

How did the process of evolution begin? The better question is, "what drives the process of evolution?" Evolution is driven by multiple mechanisms, but relies primarily on the two most famous:

* Natural selection: Darwin's principal that organisms change over time based on their need to adapt to their natural surroundings. * Genetic drift: Random mutations in the genetic code enabling the selective process of natural selection. Those two mechanisms are the main driving force behind the well-known fact that organisms change over time.

Evolution began in the very first set of organisms on Earth -- how those organisms were created is not a question left to the theory of evolution, but rather a question that is explained by the theory of abiogenesis (which is not spontaneous generation, and is not part of the theory of evolution.) It is worth noting that these first organisms are thought to be extremely simple in nature. The modern consensus among the scientific community is that they were single-celled.

For more information on this subject you might consider visiting some of the following webpages:

* http:/www.wikipedia.org/wiki/evolution -- while I understand Wikipedia isn't always the best of sources, this particular page is accurate and protected from vandalism and false-editing. * http:/www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution * http:/evolution.berkeley.edu -- my personal favorite. ---- Hey!!! I read in some Evolution Book that we started off as lemurs. So uh, yeah, I guess. TOODLES!!!!!

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