• Question: What evidence from science proves that living organisms gradually evolved from simpler to more complex forms of life, changing into different more advanced species through mutations and natural selection or that man evolved from lower life forms as proposed by Darwin ?

    Asked by n3rdy to Vince, Hannah, Gopal, Becky on 25 Jun 2013. This question was also asked by 12jaboateng.
    • Photo: Hannah Little

      Hannah Little answered on 25 Jun 2013:

      The main form of evidence is fossils of animals from millions of years ago becoming gradually more and more like the animals we see alive today. We can also genetically analyse living organisms and show which mutations had to occur for them to become so different.

    • Photo: Rebecca Cook

      Rebecca Cook answered on 26 Jun 2013:

      Sequencing of the DNA of different species genome (all the heritary information of an organsm) is also providing support for evolution. Genomes of closely related species are also closely related. Even distantly related organisms have some similarities in their genomes suggesting a common ancestor between these species.

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