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...Thus, Darwin was wrong, or so political humorist Mort Sahl would have you believe...
...current find. That 3.2 million-year-old female hominid had some human characteristics -- most notably, she walked on two legs rather than four -- but skull and tooth fragments indicated she was somewhat apelike as well. She fit nicely into the shared-ancestor theory first put forward by Charles Darwin and supported by modern comparisons between human and ape proteins and DNA. The divergence between the ape and human lines, argued the biochemists, came somewhere between 4 million and 6 million years ago. And some paleontologists predicted that as hominid species were discovered from periods closer and closer to the time...
Microbes' extraordinary ability to adapt, observes Harvard microbiologist Fields, "is a fact of life. It's written into evolution." Indeed, the end run that many organisms are making around modern antibiotics is a textbook case of Darwin's theory in action (anti-evolutionists, take note). In its simplest form, the theory states that new traits will spontaneously appear in individual members of a given species -- in modern terms, mutations will arise in the organisms' genetic material. Usually the traits will be either useless or debilitating, but once in a while they'll confer a survival advantage, allowing the individual...
Still, most high school students say they feelthe same as Perez, who is taking genetics and aclass on Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein andSigmund Freud...
Still, most high school students say they feelthe same as Perez, who is taking genetics and aclass on Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein andSigmund Freud...