Thursday 10 November, 2011

Evolution : Meaning & Definition

Evolution is derived from Latin word evolvere (e= from/ out & volvere=to roll) and it means the act of unfolding or to unroll or to revel hidden potentialities. Evolution is the doctrine according to which higher forms of life gradually arisen out of lower.


The term EVOLUTION was first used by Charles Bonnet (according to Calow, 1983). However according to Savage (1969), the term evolution was first used by Herbert Spencer.


Evolution has been defined as a gradual orderly change from one condition to another. As per Charles Darwin's view, evolution is descent with modification or continuity of life with constant modification i.e. closely related species resembling one another because of their inheritance and differing from one another because of the hereditary differences accumulated during the separation of their ancestors. 


Evolution is a dynamic process by which related populations diverge from one another, giving rise to new species or higher groups. (Dodson & Dodson, 1976)


Evolution in its simplest understanding means change - orderly change between generations. 


Evolution means the transformation of species.


The doctrine of evolution assumes that the present day complex animals and plants have been developed in the course of long ages by a process of gradual change in the earlier simpler forms of life. However, not all kinds of biological change can be addressed as evolution. 


Developmental change within the life of an organism should not be addressed  as evolution in strict sense and the definition refers to descent with modification. The concept of evolution should not include the idea that evolution is always progressive leading invariably from simpler to more complex forms of life. Evolutionary modification in living thing depends on external environmental change and on random genetic innovation. Thus, the form of future change cannot be predictable.


I think that evolution is the love-affair between Nature and Energy.

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