Excellent, QP.For @FastLane and the other science illiterates here.
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Evolution is the process of descent with modification, where populations of living things change over many generations.
It operates through a few simple, repeating steps:
Over millions of years, these small changes accumulate, leading to the adaptation of species to their habitats and the eventual formation of new species.
- Variation: Within any population, individuals have natural differences in their traits (like size, color, or speed) caused by random mutations in their DNA.
- Inheritance: These traits are heritable, meaning they are passed from parents to offspring through genes.
- Selection: Not all individuals survive to reproduce. Those with traits best suited to their environment are more likely to survive, find food, and avoid predators.
- Time: Because the "fittest" individuals have more offspring, advantageous traits become more common in the next generation.
The nonsense that we humans descended from apes is just a mistake in understanding what science is saying.
