Question

Define the term ‘evolution’. “Evolution cannot be equated with progress”. Justify this statement.

Answer 1

Evolution is the sequence of gradual changes which takes place in the primitive organisms over millions of years in which new species are produced.

There is no real progress in the concept of evolution. Evolution is just the production of diversity of life forms and shaping of this diversity by the environmental selection. The only progress in evolution appears to be that more and more complex body designs of organisms have emerged over the ages.

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