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selection processes always reduce diversity. processes modifying genes increase diversity.
atp stores energy for maintaining life processes. These life processes result in work being done whenever molecules atoms or ions are rearranged.ATP metabolism is the oldest known cellular metabolism developed by evolution. It may even go back before the existence of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates!
Only in the sense that natural selection needs variations in organisms to select from. Evolution could take place by random processes, such as genetic drift, or geographic processes, such as gene flow, but only natural selection causes the adaptive change that results in speciation.
Geological " deep " time gives ample time for evolutionary processes to occur.
The formation of life on earth has little to do with evolutionary sciences, which deal how lifechanges, not how it begins. The formation of life has as little to do, specifically, with evolution as it does with cell theory, or biogeography, or diet of organisms, or photosynthesis... it's a prerequisite for these processes.
selection processes always reduce diversity. processes modifying genes increase diversity.
It is one of several means of producing diversity on which the several mean of selection that drive evolution can act. Darwin knew nothing of mutation and only discussed diversity (without any mechanism to produce it) and what he called natural selection. There have been many of both types of processes discovered since Darwin.
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The concept of gradualism. Also called uniformtarianism.
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All natural selection results in evolution. But natural selection is not necessarily the only mechanism leading to evolution. There are processes at work on a molecular level, such as intragenomic conflict-type processes, that also result in differential reproductive success, but aren't exactly related to the kind of processes Darwin first described.
Random processes are not part of the theory of evolution by natural selection.
Mutation, Natural Selection, Migration, and Genetic Drift.
There isn't really such a thing as "geologic evolution". Geology describes processes by which geological features may form or alter, but these are not in any way even remotely similar to the processes by which lifeforms develop over time. The changes wrought by geological processes can be (summarily) described in terms of mechanical forces acting on a single body of mixed composition; the processes involved in evolution require populations of self-replicating organisms. So really, they don't compare. At all.
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