https://www.webwiki.de/evolutionkr.kr/ The Berkeley Evolution Site The Berkeley site offers resources that can help students and educators learn about and teach evolution. The resources are organized into optional learning paths like "What did T. rex taste like?" Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection explains that over time creatures that are more adaptable to changing environments do better than those that do not become extinct. This process of evolution is the main focus of science. What is Evolution? The word evolution has many nonscientific meanings, such as "progress" or "descent with modification." Scientifically, it refers to a changes in the traits of organisms (or species) over time. This change is based in biological terms on natural selection and drift. Evolution is a fundamental concept in modern biology. It is a concept that has been tested and verified through thousands of scientific tests. Evolution doesn't deal with spiritual beliefs or God's presence in the same way as other theories in science, like the Copernican or germ theory of diseases. Early evolutionists, such as Erasmus Darwin (Charles’s grandfather) and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck believed that certain physical traits were predetermined to evolve in a step-like fashion over time. They referred to this as the "Ladder of Nature" or scala naturae. Charles Lyell first used this term in 1833 in his Principles of Geology. Darwin revealed his theory of evolution in his book On the Origin of Species which was written in the early 1800s. It claims that different species of organisms share an ancestry that can be traced through fossils and other evidence. This is the current understanding of evolution, which is supported by many lines of scientific research that include molecular genetics. While scientists do not know the exact mechanism by which organisms evolved, they are confident that the evolution of life on earth is a result of natural selection and genetic drift. People with advantages are m