can we equate evolution and progress?
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Is evolution a process or the result of an unknown process?
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Kuhu Dixit, lives in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India (1999-present)
Answered Apr 3, 2017
We are not yet sure about evolution being a process or result of some process. Here’s what I think about it.
Most common belief is that evolution is a process which works because of several driving forces and gives us organisms with different allele frequencies. We, the modern Homo sapiens, are a result of the process called evolution which worked for millions of years to give a result in the form of all the species that we observe around us today. It is a continuous process which keeps adding and removing different species on the basis of certain factors like natural selection, genetic drift etc. It is non-directional so we can’t know exactly what evolution will bring for us in the future.
What most people fail to notice is the fact that evolution can also be considered to be a result of a process we call natural selection. Nature selects organisms which have characters best suited for the change in the habitat conditions. In a population of beetles with two varieties with respect to colour as red and green, the beetles with green skin colour will be favored by nature because of better camouflaging conditions among the green leaves. Wiping out of a certain group of organisms from a population leads to change in the allele frequency and thus results into occurring of evolution.
Evolution as of now is both a process and a result of a process.
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Kuhu Dixit, lives in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India (1999-present)
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We are not yet sure about evolution being a process or result of some process. Here’s what I think about it.
Most common belief is that evolution is a process which works because of several driving forces and gives us organisms with different allele frequencies. We, the modern Homo sapiens, are a result of the process called evolution which worked for millions of years to give a result in the form of all the species that we observe around us today. It is a continuous process which keeps adding and removing different species on the basis of certain factors like natural selection, genetic drift etc. It is non-directional so we can’t know exactly what evolution will bring for us in the future.
What most people fail to notice is the fact that evolution can also be considered to be a result of a process we call natural selection. Nature selects organisms which have characters best suited for the change in the habitat conditions. In a population of beetles with two varieties with respect to colour as red and green, the beetles with green skin colour will be favored by nature because of better camouflaging conditions among the green leaves. Wiping out of a certain group of organisms from a population leads to change in the allele frequency and thus results into occurring of evolution.
Evolution as of now is both a process and a result of a process.
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