• Question: Could evolution just be a case of adaptation that we are over exaggerating?

    Asked by bethx1 to Ed, Katie, Sam, Steve, Vera on 20 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Steven Daly

      Steven Daly answered on 18 Jun 2011:

      If there was only one example then yes you could be right. However there are now so many different examples that evolution is seen as a real process.

    • Photo: Ed Morrison

      Ed Morrison answered on 18 Jun 2011:

      Evolution produces adaptations as it causes things to change over time. So it’s not a case of over exaggerating – adaptations are evidence for evolution.

    • Photo: Vera Weisbecker

      Vera Weisbecker answered on 18 Jun 2011:

      I agree with Steven and Ed – Adaptation is what makes the process of Evolution happen, for example, when bacteria adapt to antibiotics they evolve a resistance (bad for us) or when humans adapted to life in the savannah they evolved walking on two legs (good for us). Like Steven said, there are so many thousands of examples that Evolution is really quite hard to miss once you go looking for it!

    • Photo: Katie Marriott

      Katie Marriott answered on 19 Jun 2011:

      I agree with the others!

    • Photo: Sam Tazzyman

      Sam Tazzyman answered on 20 Jun 2011:

      I agree with the others, and also I’m not sure how adaptation over time could occur without evolution.

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