EVOLUTION EVOLVING: WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW

A brief, readable introduction! Evolution Evolving begins by presenting Darwin’s concept of evolution by natural selection. Subsequent chapters highlight four transformations stemming from later discoveries. The transformations adjust, yet support, Darwin’s original ideas.

Darwin’s concept of the modification of organisms through natural selection forever changed our understanding of nature and time. His ideas remodeled static nature into a dynamic complex of relationships that evolved from one another naturally through almost four billion years. Since his original ideas of 1859, we have discovered that genes explain inheritance, that genetic relatedness underlies animal social behavior, and that genes affect the development of each organism. Furthermore, some genes persist for millions and even billions of years, giving inheritance an unimagined antiquity and stability while bestowing on all organisms, from bacteria to us, a remarkable relatedness.

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by Patricia A. Williams

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