question that has plagued humanity for thousands of years. Once life was present on the planet, scientists largely agree that natural selection, the theory presented by Charles Darwin, took place allowing the hundreds of various species to emerge from one common ancestor known as the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) (Christian, Brown & Benjamin 2013, p. 57). Theories of how life actually came into being include; life began with a spark from electricity, which can generate the amino acids and…
However, some people also had their own theory. One of the most known is the theory of evolution and natural selection by Darwin. But, what are natural selection and evolution? Those concepts are often misunderstood. Few people know their different process, the origin of natural selection and the evidence of evolution that we have found. In the first place, we must understand what evolution is and the way it may occurs to fully understand the theory that goes with it. The definition of evolution…
Evolution is a scientific theory that has been developed over years which is defined as “any genetic change in population that is inherited over several generations” (Bailey, 2015). For an event to be classified as evolution, changes on the genetic level of a population and be passed on has to occur. Evolution includes that all life can be traced back to one ancestor, being that all life is connected. (Bailey, 2015). The scientific theory of evolution was proposed by Charles Darwin in his book On…