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I don't believe in evolution and i forgot to pay attention to the lesson so yeah please help!

2007-02-15 14:51:25 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Biology

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I have a very important question for you ...

If you don't know the important part of natural selection ... if you "forgot to pay attention" when it was explained to you ... then why have you decided you don't believe it?

Somehow you decided you don't believe it, even before you understood what it says.

If you don't understand it, then ON WHAT BASIS have you decided you don't believe it?

This is a VERY important question. Because this right here, this moment, this lesson, will affect whether you will ever undertand ANYTHING in science, or go the rest of your life closing your mind to things before you understand them ... which will guarantee that you will not understand a LOT of things.

If you answer that honestly, then here is the answer to your question:

Natural selection has three observations, and one conclusion.
Do you disagree with any of them?
1. Variation - Individuals are not all identical.
2. Inheritance - Individuals pass traits onto offspring.
3. Competition - Individuals compete for resources and mating opportunities.

GIven those three things, this follows logically:

4. Those individuals with traits that help them compete better, end up passing those very traits onto their offspring.

That's it. That's all. That's Natural Selection.

If you don't "believe it", then please explain which of the 4 statements you disagree with.

2007-02-15 19:40:32 · answer #1 · answered by secretsauce 7 · 1 0

Evolution means "change over a long period of time." I'm sorry if you don't "believe" in "it", even though it's not a matter of belief, it's a matter of weighing the evidence for or against it. (And, for the record, there is very little evidence against natural selection...almost all of the true, hard, scientific evidence that exists supports the theory.)

There is no most important part of evolution...whatever your assignment is, tell your teacher that no one part of the process of natural selection is more important than the other. It takes sexual reproduction (in most cases) among members of the species, genetic variation within the species, and forces of nature acting on the species to cause changes in the phenotypes of individuals until they eventually adapt or become extinct.

2007-02-15 23:53:03 · answer #2 · answered by the_way_of_the_turtle 6 · 0 0

Well, lemme think.

Random changes + organisms outperforming each other based on those changes = eventual, long-term changes for the better. The "outperforming each other" is essentially what natural selection is, so one could say the most important part of natural selection is that some organisms work better than others. The ones that work better make more of themselves, so we end up with more of them than the ones that don't work as well.

(Also, I'm avoiding the term "evolution" here because it can mean either "humans evolved from other primates and such" or "genes gradually change to become better".)

2007-02-15 23:24:52 · answer #3 · answered by Steven F 2 · 0 0

Genetic variance and the occurrance of genetic mutations... Without these two things there is no way of generating new phenotypic characteristics and genes with novel functions.

eg: Sickle Cell anaemia- a genetic mutation found in equatorial regions that cause carriers of the mutated gene to be immune against malarial infection. Two copies however proves to be fatal, therefore its presence is not found in non-equatorial regions as it is an inferior genotyp in that region...

2007-02-16 00:52:47 · answer #4 · answered by Barry The Bomber 1 · 0 0

Evolution is bull. For your assignmnt: Natural Selection is the process by which some species live to reproduce and others die. The most important part is probably the loss and adaption and the supposedly evolution of it all (bull, Darwin, you had better get your mother to read you better bed time stories!!!)
But this is all rubbish made up by Darwin. You can use what I gave you for your assignment.
Just remember, the must important thing about natural selection TO DARWIN is that is part of the theory that'll give him fame

2007-02-15 22:59:59 · answer #5 · answered by lemon drops 3 · 0 4

The natural part.

2007-02-15 22:54:58 · answer #6 · answered by Alan Winans 4 · 0 0

Differing reproductive success is what makes natural selection work.

2007-02-16 00:31:54 · answer #7 · answered by datamonkey0031 2 · 0 0

Adaptability.

2007-02-15 22:56:56 · answer #8 · answered by Abby 4 · 1 0

Variation. Heritability of favorable traits. Those possessing them survive to reproduce, those that do not, do not reproduce. It does not matter to the truth what you believe. Pay attention in class from now on. Go here.

http://www.talkorigins.org

2007-02-15 22:58:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

survival of the fitest the one with the best traits survive and reproduce then the traits are also in the offspring its natures way of getting rid of deformities or retards

2007-02-16 01:58:54 · answer #10 · answered by snwcal5 2 · 0 0

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