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Are organisms able to consciously direct the course of their own evolution?
No. Evolution is a consequence of selective pressure(s) from the environment acting on organisms. Virtually all living beings are not conscious of this process.The only species that *could* consciously direct its own evolution is Homo sapiens (humans), but currently it doesn't.Artificial selection can and has consciously directed evolution, but it always was a species acting over other different species, not on their own evolution.
Who proposed that living things evolved through natural selection?
Charles Darwin proposed the theory of natural selection as a mechanism for evolution in his book "On the Origin of Species" published in 1859. He suggested that organisms that are better adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce, passing on their advantageous traits to their offspring.
Why does free competition and natural selection seem wrong in our present social system?
By the way, this article is not talking about animal breeding issues or human breeding issues, which is not my concern, not this moment. It is about how nature uses its laws to decide intelligent living thing's existence and how human can adapt. It is not the natural law --- "free competition natural selection" is wrong but the specific meaning of it at the present social system development level is not applicable to the changed system, though its general meaning still apply. The usual meaning we use is the specific meaning of it --- competition in a process. That determines who win and who lose in a process. But the general meaning of "free competition, natural selection" includes system selection that determine processes connections and final survival. Natural selection has different forms and different selection levels, higher level selection always are more important and more decisive than the lower level ones. The natural selection we usually talk about is the process selection. It is a lower level selection on strategic and tactic level. This is the specific meaning of natural selection; it is widely used in game theory, social biological and social behavioural studies. But the general meaning of natural selection include all forms and all levels of selection including system selection which is a higher level selection which can override process selection and be the decisive selection that decides final survival. Use value has power and it only can be converted from real value --- natural value which is natural resources. Under natural process over use resources make more power and power is the hard force that always prevails. Competition pressure and natural process will always tend to cause more over use of resources but at this moment of social development, natural mechanisms on this process level cannot function to check human activities and resources are facing exhaustion and environment loading capacity are facing limit. So the natural development of this process is human life chain cut early --- extinction (natural mechanisms only on this process level can check human destruction). This is an example of winning a competition in a process does not mean "win" in a general meaning --- they extinct. The only way to achieve the general meaning of "win" is use rationality to overcome the process disadvantage of instability to win natural selection in system level --- recognise and obey natural law to use rational thinking directed rational efforts to establish rational social system and carry out rational process in it to connect human with higher level of evolution process and continue to survive. Here, the fittest is the rational beings and nature does select them. When social system evolved to high level and the structure and function become highly manmade, we have to overcome process selection pressure to win natural selection on system selection level to connect our present evolution process to a higher level of evolution process and continue to survive into far future. So, though the specific meaning of free competition and natural selection is conditional in our present social system but the general meaning of it is absolute --- it is an absolute law of the nature and can be applied universally and unconditionally. For instances: though the natural tendency driven natural process (such as self-interested opportunists'' short-sighted behaviour) will always have the advantage of natural process favoured thermodynamic stability and behavioural strategy stability, but when social system naturally developed into a critical point that the system no longer can continue under natural process, those process favoured self-interested opportunists if still stick to their old way of unlimited exploiting the nature, they will be selected out by natural selection that select out the old natural social system with its natural process. Nature selects the rational social system on system selection level that overrides process selection. That is why the endless and unlimited exploitation of natural resources will only win those smart self-interested opportunists a short while of easy life by whether choose cooperative strong development or competitive strong growth, they will all be gone with that social system --- they bring that system down along with themselves and the process that favour their behaviour. As a human being, it is actually themselves that selected themselves out of existence but not really nature's doing. A rationalist doesn't mean selfless, he just smarter --- he can rationalise his short term interest so that to get the ultimate interest --- perpetual existence.
What is the primary evolutionary unit in living organisms?
population is the primary evolutionary unit of any living organisms
What does not exhibit the property of adaptation?
Non-living things, such as rocks and water, do not exhibit the property of adaptation. Adaptation is a biological process that enables living organisms to better survive and reproduce in their environment through natural selection and genetic changes over time.
what statement is most closely related to the modern theory of evolution?
The modern theory of evolution states that all living organisms have descended from a common ancestor through the process of natural selection acting on genetic variations.
Charles Darwin suggested that the evolution of living organisms is guided by?
Natural Selection
What is the principal that states that living species are descended from ancient ones?
Natural selection
What principle states that living things change gradually over time through natural selection?
The theory of evolution by natural selection.
Describe how natural selection occurs?
Natural selection is the means by which living things are selected to reproduce. It is called natural because it is what happens in what is considered ordinary living conditions. It works by allowing only those creature capable of surviving getting to reproduce. If a creature is incapable of living/surviving in the environment that it finds itself in then it doesn't reproduce and becomes extinct.
When certain traits increase the likelihood of a animal living a long life it is referred to as?
Natural Selection
Are organisms able to consciously direct the course of their own evolution?
No. Evolution is a consequence of selective pressure(s) from the environment acting on organisms. Virtually all living beings are not conscious of this process.The only species that *could* consciously direct its own evolution is Homo sapiens (humans), but currently it doesn't.Artificial selection can and has consciously directed evolution, but it always was a species acting over other different species, not on their own evolution.
What selection is Darwin associated with?
Charles Darwin is associated with the theory of evolution by natural selection, which explains how species evolve and adapt to their environments over time through the process of natural selection. He is best known for his work on the origin of species and the idea that all living organisms are descended from a common ancestor.
How do living things change over time?
They adapt and evolve through the process of natural selection and learned behaviours.
What is natural selection and how does it drive the process of evolution in living organisms?
Natural selection is a process where organisms that are better adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce, passing on their advantageous traits to their offspring. Over time, this leads to changes in the characteristics of a population, driving the process of evolution in living organisms.
What best illustrates a result of natural selection?
It shows natural selection by showing how different birds have adapted over time to continue living, and the birds which didn't adapt, went extinct.
Is natural selection what best demonstrates the unity among all living organisms?
Natural selection is one mechanism that contributes to the diversity of life on Earth rather than demonstrating unity among living organisms. It acts on individual organisms within populations, leading to adaptations that enhance their survival and reproduction in specific environments. The unity among all living organisms is better demonstrated through their shared genetic code, structural similarities, and common ancestry.
