Metamorphosis

Another Severe Challenge to Darwinian Evolution

Classical evolutionary theory describes how the diversity of plants and animals that we see today developed gradually over time in form and function from a single universal common ancestor. In his book, On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin reasoned that, just as mankind can develop desirable traits in domestic plants and animals by selectively breeding for these traits, nature can develop desirable traits by a similar process (albeit, undirected), which he called "natural selection" acting on random variation. The key point is that each step needs to provide some increased survival benefit for the individual, or there is no reason to retain it for future generations.

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