The modern theory of evolution by natural selection explains how many scientists think that organisms have developed.

In this topic you need to know about the following: -

  • What mutations are and the effect they can have on an organism.
  • What survival of the fittest and natural selection are.
  • How Darwin and others came up with the theory of evolution.
  • How a new species can arise.
  • The evidence we have for evolution.
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