Jan 6, 2016 · Evolution has simply only ever been about change..." However, when you look at the history of life you see increases in complexity. You see this increasing complexity evolving …

Fitness is certainly the most important concept in the theory of evolution. My question does not have to do with practical measures of fitness but with the theoretical definition of it. I am a bit...

Mar 16, 2017 · So, instead of saying Evolution should not be equated with progress, one could say Natural selection is to be equated with progress (as a reminder this assumes a very …

May 3, 2014 · Second, the question presupposes that evolution does not make life longer. Evolution has made life longer for humans than for many other species. Asking "why does X …

Nov 18, 2016 · Indeed, evolution is all about phenotypic and genetic variance (for fitness or other phenotypic traits) and without a population to observe, there is no variance. It is within this …

Jan 27, 2012 · A student asked me this the other day and I thought that I would ask it again here. If one organism is said to be "more evolved" than another, what exactly does this mean?

Does evolution go only in one direction? No, it does not. There is no such thing as a goal of evolution at making things fly or at making things intelligent or whatever. There is no intrinsic …

Jul 27, 2020 · Could you clarify what specially you mean by 'evolution'? Are you referring to the evolution of a morphological trait, molecular evolution, evolution as a general response to …

The question of "Why does complexity usually tends to increase through time?" is transformed into the question "Does the ecosystem itself require increase in complexity to develop further?" …

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