Basics of Evolution

Evolution:Ur doin' it wrong.

As ridiculous as the concept may seem when viewed through the lens of a videogame, many people seem to fully believe in concepts like this or similar to it. One of the arguments I've come up against in my furious arguments is "evolution can't be true, you don't see monkeys giving birth to humans."

This was, as far as I can tell, a serious arguments.

The slowness of evolution is a concept hard to grasp, probably only fully understood and appreciated by the people who study and make new advances in it every day. But I do have a good grasp, it takes millions of years for species to change at minimum. Now, this is usually triggered during "rapid" periods. Humans for example, took only 5-8 million years to fully evolve since early hominids were discovered. When there is need for change, it usually happens, and happens fast., but it is still long term.

One interesting thing about long-term evolution stimulating major changes is that it hasn't been observed too well. Species have genetic stability that takes precedent over any too major changes, so that is why it's a slow process. In fact, there has never been observed a major change in anything except E.Coli. Instead, we must infer what happened in a lot of cases thanks to fossil records and observations of the environment around it.

So, that's some of the basics of evolution, and some counterarguments against counterarguments, tune in next time.