• Question: What is the true meaning of evolution?

    Asked by gabic to Charlotte, Jo, Kevin, Louise, Valeria on 18 Jun 2012. This question was also asked by cbell13.
    • Photo: Kevin Mahon

      Kevin Mahon answered on 18 Jun 2012:

      Could you clarify what you mean by ‘meaning’ here?

      If you are asking for the purpose or ”goal’ – there is none. It is an ongoing continuous process of adaptiation and refinement with no end point of its own.

      If you mean a definition – the standard one is

      ‘Evolution is the change in the genetic composition of a population during successive generations, as a result of natural selection acting on the genetic variation among individuals, and resulting in the development of new species.’

    • Photo: Valeria Senigaglia

      Valeria Senigaglia answered on 18 Jun 2012:

      Wow…thought one…I think the easiest answer is that evolution exists to allow animals to adapt to their environments

    • Photo: Joanna Cruden

      Joanna Cruden answered on 19 Jun 2012:

      It is to keep the species going and improving on it through the generations

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