Question

DEFINE THE TERM EVOLUTION."EVOLUTION CANNOT BE EQUATED WITH PROGRESS". JUSTIFY THIS STATEMENT?

Answer 1

Evolution is the formation of complex organisms through 'change'from simple ancestral types over the course of geological time .
Evolution cannot be equated with progress because it is use to describe the slow and gradual process by which living organism have undergone changes from the simplest unicellular forms of life to the most complex multi-cellular forms that can be seen today.

Answer 2

Evolution- Slow gradual and continuous changes in the traits of an individual that accumulates and enables it to survive better in its surroundings and leads to speciation.

Evolution cannot be equated with progress from lower forms to higher forms. It seems to have given rise to more complex body designs even while the simpler body designs continue to flourish.

For example, human beings have not evolved from chimpanzees but both have common ancestor.

Some bacteria can survive in extreme cold or heat where many modern organisms cannot survive.