Thanks in advance. I come from a Christian school so they don’t teach evolution because they don’t believe it.
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Evolution is the process of how populations of organizations change. The underlying thing is that the building blocks of life, our genes, can change. Our DNA’s ability to replicate and repair itself is very robust, but since this happens constantly there will be some errors. These changes (mutations) are ultimately random, and most of the time they don’t do anything/aren’t seen.
Over time these changes can accumulate in populations of a species. Maybe it allows them to survive better and have more offspring (better ability to access food, healthier young, etc). Maybe a disaster randomly kills off 90% of the original population but by chance most of the survivors just had this one trait. Maybe a subset of the population with a certain trait got blown away to an island and developed differently.
Evolution is a lot of chance things happening and is at the whims of the environment’s realities
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