Who is best known for developing a theory of evolution?
Darwin's Theory of Evolution is the widely held notion that all life is related and has descended from a common ancestor: the birds and the bananas, the fishes and the flowers - all related.
Darwin's general theory presumes the development of life from non-life and stresses a purely naturalistic (undirected) "descent with modification". That is, complex creatures evolve from more simplistic ancestors naturally over time.
In a nutshell, as random genetic mutations occur within an organism's genetic code, the beneficial mutations are preserved because they aid survival - a process known as "natural selection." These beneficial mutations are passed on to the next generation. Over time, beneficial mutations accumulate and the result is an entirely different organism (not just a variation of the original, but an entirely different creature).
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William Laughlin
Brent Chambers, Marilyn Chris Scott,
Do not be so quick to downplay the theory of evolution. It is not a guess or a supposition without basis.
In science an educated guess is call a hypothesis.
A scientific theory is a model, based on observable facts, that has predictive capacity. It is real science!
Peter Thomas
I wish people would be less hung up on where we came from, and more focussed on where we are going!! We can't change what happened before, but we CAN change what is going to happen in the future!
Michael Nayt
If we were monkeys then why are there still monkeys
billyboy915
Marilyn Chris Scott,
"Just a theory"? Do you know the difference between a hypothesis and a theory?
A theory is not up for debate. A hypothesis is. Once a hypothesis can be proven, it becomes a theory. Theories are not supposition.
Your belief in your book of tales is not scientifically based. It is closer to historical superstition; most of which cannot be repeatably proven like scientific theories can be.
arrowsmith
I'm still waiting to see the bones of those mutational transitioning creatures.
JRW
I've long wondered why so many people insist that the cosmos, and all life in it, must be the result of "intelligent design" (god). Yet have no answer for the origin of that god.
casey copus
maidofstardust, IN TWO WORDS B... S.IT !!!!
Skarry
jjennifer, very true and sensible comment
rsbgce
Boring boring - 11year old questions - time to delete Quizzclub😒
Shaun Bowdrey
joycekingsmith, which god? Zeus, Odin or Eric Clapton? Was it yahweh/jehovah? What about yahweh’s wife and fellow god asherah - the one that the Hebrew tribes decided to ignore?
Shaun Bowdrey
Michael Nayt, we were not ‘monkeys’. We are primates from the same ancestral line as apes and other simians, hence why we share 99% of our DNA with the chimpanzee. Try an education or at least read more than one book.
Tech59
Man doesn't even know how to suppress the desire for greed and hate, but can tell you everything about how man was created and how the world came to be.
gridirongreen
jjennifer, I somewhat agree. But there is also no proof of other notions either. People only pretend to know what is not knowable. That puts an onus on you to say to all others "I know almost nothing and I know that you know almost nothing. So how much time should we set aside to tell each other everything that we do know"/
jjennifer
It's called a theory for a reason...there is no proof.
Plick
I previously worked for a museum in the UK and most amazing thing in my life was to actually hold in my hands the finches that Darwin discovered evolution with.
homeducater
Michael Nayt, The theory of evolution does not say that humans we re once monkeys! It says the humans and apes evolved from a common ancestor.
maidofstardust
Man and monkeys branched off original ancestor, like chimps, gorillas, monkeys are branches of primates. No scientist ever said we came from monkeys, but the frightened bible followers of the time took it that way and that's the thing what they spread all over the world. But evolution is much more complicated, with nuanced branches that were still discovering every day. And branches are why we all exist, man & monkey, side by side, and why we keep discovering older & older previous humans. Genetically, the evidence is that all humans are descended from one woman. I hope I'm still around when we dig down to the original female!
Peter Thomas
jwd, my comment was a general one - also, I'm more concerned about keeping the earth safe for ALL flora and fauna, not just humankind.
jwd
Peter Thomas, Not hung up on creation . Just stating fact. We humans can do our best to keep earth safe for human kind.