Evolution

Natural selection and evolution occur when individuals within a population vary in traits that affect their survival and reproduction. Traits that increase an individual's likelihood of survival and reproduction are passed on to the next generation, leading to the accumulation of beneficial traits in the population over time. This process drives the adaptation of populations to their environments.

Both failed to understand the mechanism of inheritance. Darwin had a mistake " blending " idea and Wallace seemed to go along with this concept, though inheritance is particulate.

Evolution takes place over long periods of time in natural populations in various environments around the world. It occurs through genetic changes in populations over generations, resulting in the accumulation of adaptations that enhance survival and reproduction.

With oxygen the organisms of earth could more efficiently use food because as the final electron acceptor in the electron transport chain oxygen is a main player in the conversion of, say, glucose into many ATP molecules per glucose molecule. Oxygen is the most efficient way to do this compared to fermentation which is anaerobic.

Thus organisms became multicellular and much more complex with energy to become motile to a greater degree than before.

Sexual reproduction leads to variety in the gene pool because the genome of an offspring organism may have a mixture of the genomes of both parents, rather than just the material of a single parent. Evolution in asexually reproducing organisms occurs by mutation, rather than genetic variation, since there is only one parent.

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Evolution is a fact. The theory of evolution by natural selection is what you are trying to talk about.

When someone says " evolution is just a theory " they are using the vulgar, common sense of the word theory. They mean guess, hunch and the like. The theory of evolution by natural selection is in the scientific sense of the word theory, which means a body of explanatory work supported by myriad lines of converging evidence that has been tested rigouusly and replicated often. Any good dictionary uses this scientific meaning of theory as the primary meaning of the word.

Ill posed question.

Since populations evolve and can have many different and changing strategies for survival and reproductive success, some variant within the population, tour question does not make any sense. Evolution is not linear, but branching from many, many points of departure.

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Evolution of paired limbs was one of major developments . Similarly development of jaws , Amnion etc are also major developments .

In the food types eaten. The ranges where some beak sizes would gather food and the ranges where other type beak sizes would gather food could be quite different and the two beak sizes would not mate and their gene pool would drift apart and become too variant for successful mating. Just one of many scenarios that could lead to reproductive isolation is birds of different beak sizes. Think of sexual selection and come up with another yourself.

My spidey senses are telling me to tell you to look in your book.

The couple spent years observing and documenting environmental conditions of Galapagos finches and how it related to beak structure. They discovered that environmental changes favored certain individuals who in turn, passed those favored traits on to their offspring. This occured more rapidly than previously supposed.

Biologists, paleontologists, geneticists, and anthropologists are some of the scientists who study evolution. They analyze fossils, genetic data, and comparative anatomy to understand how species evolved over time. The theory of evolution was proposed by Charles Darwin in the 19th century, and his ideas laid the foundation for the study of evolution.

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Humans do not have enough hair left to raise in trapping heat under a good layer of hair, so now this response just tells us we are too cold, or that danger is eminent.

Because as humans started eating softer food smaller, less energetically dis-favorable jaws were selected for. Big jaws require big expensive muscle and that energy outlay could be used elsewhere to be reproductively successful. Wisdom teeth were needed back before cooking food made it easier to chew. So, a natural selection is a sloppy tinkerer that works with what material it has the Wisdom teeth were not selected against, but, increasingly has to be pulled. Some people died of erupting Wisdom teeth in the old days before proper dentistry. This is a vestigial structure: no longer used for it's original purpose. A very few people can accommodate Wisdom teeth, but most people need them extracted when they erupt.

The educational accomplishments of your father. Your mothers bridge skills. Your fathers workout musculature. Your progeny would inherit your " desire " to evolve any trait deemed necessary and the concept of use and disuse would apply to these traits.

Because when, say prey, develop faster running ability this causes selection for faster running ability in the predator. If prey develop better camouflage then predators are selected on the basis of better eyesight and then prey turns around and is selected on the basis of better camouflage, or some other adaption that insures survival and reproductive success of individual prey.

An arms race that is constrained by what is physically possible and what evolution can tinker p on what is already there.

Just after the beginning of the 20th century a religious revival called fundamentalism gained traction in America and the battle commenced. Of course there was opposition before then, but now the opponents of evolutionary science were literalists in their biblical interpretations and well organized in their opposition to the theory of evolution by natural selection.

There is no real argument, Evolution, the change in allele frequency over time in a population of organisms, is fact. The theory of evolution by natural selection explains much of the fact of evolution. Creationism is pure nonsense.

Because of the morphological homologies they display with similar structures in other extant and extinct lifeforms, following, like virtually every other morphological or anatomical feature of life, the nested hierarchies of biology.

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The two concepts of the inheritance of acquired characteristics plus use and disuse of traits.

A significant change in the environment that exerts selective pressure on a population, leading to favored traits being passed on to future generations through natural selection.