Evolution

Evolution is the theory that the several species of plants and animals on the globe were not created in their present form, but have all been evolved by modifications of structure from cruder forms under or coincident with change of environment, an idea which is being applied to everything organic in the spiritual as well as the natural world.

Charles Darwin has defined evolution as 'descent with modification'. The term has been variously used and abused since Darwin to include everything from the origin of man to the origin of life.

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Evolutionary tree, Evora, Evreux, Ewige Jude, Ex