Evolution

Traits that are passed down through the generations must be either culturally or environmentally inculcated or genetically inherited (or some combination of these).

Evolutionary biology concerns itself with genetically inherited traits.

In the long term, for genetically inherited traits to continue to be passed down through the generations, they must be at least neutral with regard to reproductive fitness, or advantageous (i.e. they must not be subject to negative selection pressure)

Charles Robert Darwin

There is no such thing! The Bible states that God Created the earth in 7 days. Not a big bang hit the earth and everything was there.

The answer above is very Christian-centric, but here's an answer in a nutshell: Scientists can't prove that there was an evolution, but they cannot disprove it either. So evolution wasn't nessecary, if that's what you believe. You know what? This whole question is regarding YOUR personal beliefs.

Possible so, as the theory of evolution by natural selection, though his greatest product, was by no means Darwin's only production. Just before he died he produced a treatise on earthworms that is still relevant today.

Much more morphological variation occurs in plants. Genetic variation is the big variation in plants because of polyploidy; this doubling, tripling and halving of chromosome number in the mating of two plants not only leads to great variation in genetic material, but also leads to great speciation in plants.

Chingling

" Survival of the fittest. "

Many Muslims and Orthodox Jews do not " believe " in evolution. Of course the truth does not need you belief to be true and something can be true whether you believe it or not.

I should re-word this question.

Is there an atheist that doesn't agree with evolution?

There may be an atheist that does not agree with evolutionary theory, but what difference would that make?

If there was someone out there I would like to hear his views on evolution.

They began to believe that wealth was a sign of "survival of the fittest."

The idea of acquired characteristics. For instance. The idea that a blacksmith, who would develop enormous muscles due to his trade, could pass these physical attributes on to his children.

hunting and gathering, pastoralism and nomadism, agricultural, and finally a stage of commerce

European males were estimated to have measured about 1,83m (6 ft) some 40.000 years ago. About 10.000 years ago, climate change and the adoption of agriculture caused a reduction to about 1,62m (5ft4). 600 years ago, European males were about 1.65m in length, as the Little Ice Age hitting Europe and general poverty coincided. Since then, a steadily improving diet has allowed the average European male to grow to an average of 1.75m (5ft9).

Note that these figures are for European males only, and do not apply to women or humans from other descent.

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I do not think so, as ratites have no keel and have a flat sternum. Ostriches are an example of this large flightless bird that could not fly even if it had large enough wings. No keel to anchor the flight muscles.

The ultimate allopatric ( geographic ) speciation. If you had a population of quite similar organisms in a area that split the population into two or more populations when continental drift occurred you would have different mutations and changing environments putting selective pressure on two or more populations now.

Not at all. Though some anthropological conclusions may have been changed.

Slight anatomical changes over significant amounts of time resulting in new species and adaptations is precisely what evolution is. Having a knowledge of certain anatomies allows for comparison. Take orangutan anatomy for example. It is extremely similar to human anatomy, but there are certain differences that tell us that humans are not descendants from orangutans. Also, the fossil record on which evolution evidence is so well based, relies largely on classifying anatomical characteristics.

Lamarck's theory is that an organism can pass traits to their offspring that they have acquired in their lifetime. One example commonly used is that he felt giraffes acquired long necks because of generations of them stretching and trying to reach higher leaves on the tree. He thought that these stretched muscles would be passed down to their offspring. This has been proven wrong because this is not how evolution takes place. If you would cut off the tails of two mice and then breed them their offspring would not have short tails.

He said that as giraffe stretching out their necks get longer and longer

Though the basics are settled some questions still remain. One of the biggest arguments in evolution now is the argument of the exact evolutionary history of the human lineage, and its relationships to its closest relatives, past and present.

The discussion about specific phylogenies remains because the genetic evidence is, while more precise than any other line, not so accurate as to allow only one phylogeny for each assay.

Also, there remains plenty to discuss on the subjects of mechanisms. Drift, biased gene conversion, plenty other mechanisms affect evolution - but to what degree?

The scientific community doesn't accept something until it has been conclusively supported by evidence and has been shown to fit the facts.

The religious community saw it as a threat to their belief system (and some still do today).

Robin Dunbar proposed, based on primate research, a relation between brain size and the number of social relationships an individual can maintain. Dunbar proposed, furthermore, that the evolution of language greatly reduced the mental effort required to maintain the same number of social relationships.

How this all relates to the evolution of the brain is not immediately evident to me, although it undoubtedly does.

An evolutionary trade-off occurs when there is a compromise between two traits that cannot be optimized simultaneously. For example, investing resources in growing a larger brain may come at the expense of producing fewer offspring. Evolutionary trade-offs are the result of limited resources and competing selective pressures.