Introduction

Question 1

How can evolution be considered a fact?

Answer 1

Ideas date back to ancient Greece, with lots of evidence to support it from palaeontology, comparative anatomy, developmental biology, molecular biology, and comparative genomics

Question 2

How can evolution be considered a theory?

Answer 2

Natural selection being the central mechanism of evolutionary theory

Question 3

How can evolution be considered a path?

Answer 3

Examines the factual details of the history of life, not only processes and mechanisms

Question 4

What is evolution?

Answer 4

Change over time

Question 5

How did Darwin define evolution? (without actually calling it evolution)

Answer 5

Descent with modification

Question 6

What is microevolution?

Answer 6

How changes happen in individuals - the process

Question 7

What is macroevolution?

Answer 7

The history of the processes that resulted in unique evolutionary events

Question 8

Why do populations evolve and not individuals?

Answer 8

Individuals with the best traits are naturally selected, and those individuals interbreed with the population, which incorporates the changes into the population and the population evolves