Question: What is your opinion on the theory of evolution from animals?

Craig O'Hare answered on 15 Mar 2017:

I like it, I think it’s useful for understanding immunology too. For example evolution explains how flu viruses always change every year because we’re forcing the virus to change to avoid the immune system.

When I was at uni we learnt a lot about this experiment done by Stanley Miller and Harold Urey in the 1950s. Miller and Urey essentially took a flask filled with the atmospheric gases; water, methane, ammonia and hydrogen and recreated the conditions that were suspected to be on earth billions of years ago. After leaving the flask for a week they were able to isolate amino acids, which are the building blocks of our cells. I think this experiment is really cool because it shows that bio-molecules could have continued to form and eventually would come together to make cells and then basic life forms.

I think if we examine how humans and apes have changed over the last couple million of years it’s easy to speculate about how we may have evolved from them too.