Evolution Is The Process Of Inheriting Traits Through Dna...

Evolution is not just a story about where we came from, but an epic at the center of life itself. Evolution is the process of inheriting traits through DNA over successful generations. Charles Darwin, a naturalist and geologist synthesized a theory later known as Darwinism, which explains that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual s ability to compete, survive, and reproduce (Darwin, 1859). Humans have evolved over a period of almost 1.5 millions of years with creation, development and destruction of many characteristics. But how did humans look thousands of years ago, how would we look thousand years from now and how did early humans†¦show more content†¦It is a well known fact that humans evolved from apes of Africa and what sets us apart from them is the size of the brain. But further analysis proved that it was not just the brain size but a series of adaptive selection processe s over thousands of years that set us apart. The lingering question that existed for a long time was how do apes exist till date if humans have evolved from them? Dr. Ward explains that humans did not evolve from apes, but the apes and humans have a common prehistoric ancestor, the Great African Ape that is extinct now. After a single evolution chain starting from the Great Ape, a series of adaptive gene selections took place that forked the single evolution chain into two: the apes species and the hominin species. Hominins are the first ancestors to the homo species of which humans or homo sapiens are the latest evolution stage. Ward (2003) further suggests that studying the evolution process helps us understand human behavior and physical features today and also predict human behavior and physical characteristics in the future. This school of thought is further fueled by Dr. John Glad an American academic who specializes in the literature and politics of exile during the world war II and Nazism, has used the concept of Darwinism to explain how the future world of humans is going to be like, in the article (an extract from the book of the very same name), The future of human evolution. Fearing the survival of