For multiple reasons like mating success, size, strength, survival skills, being able to reproduce on a large scale, and by adapting to harsh environmental conditions. This applies to all living organisms on the planet. Adapting and being able to change is what keeps a species from going extinct. Darwin proved this theory by doing experiments on finches on the Galapagos Island. He observed how finches would react to any challenge that were thrown their way. Some finches went extinct due to them not being able to keep up with the number of predators and decrease in the type of insects that they consumed. An example of natural selection is penguins. Penguins are aquatic birds that cannot fly which makes them more susceptible to predators. Flying penguins on the other hand are both aquatic and flying birds. However, in place of flying, penguins are master swimmers which also benefits them in in finding food, but …show more content…
It is a complex biological process in which an organism inherits different phenotypes of its ancestors. It can be also seen as the way how living beings responds to the environmental changes around them. It is just the nature’s way of defining the rule “survival of the fittest.” There have been numerous theories on evolution, but the one depicted by Charles Darwin in his book On the Origin of Species is observed to be the base of evolutionary biology. Darwin described his scientific theory of how the population evolved by going through the process of natural selection along the generations. In his book, he validated how diversity of life evolved from a single ancestor to many different organisms. Some of different genus and different families. Proof of evolution has come forth in ancient fossil remains, fossil layers and similarities in DNA coding. Darwin discovered many types of remains of ancient organisms, he discovered fossil layers and bones that were frozen under rocks. Darwin and various scientists have made discoveries pertaining that the ancient organisms whose remains that are found have similar appearances of the organisms that are alive today, because they shared a common ancestor. For example, megatherium (a genus of elephant-sized ground sloths, which are now extinct) was probably an ancient ancestor to tree sloths that are of existence today. Science daily