| Darwin published his idea of natural
selection in his book, The Origin of Species
about 150 years ago. While natural selection is now
widely accepted, some people still have problems understanding
it.
There are three major ways that Darwin has been misunderstood.
These understandings are:
X that "survival
of the fittest" means only the strongest and fastest
survive;
X that natural
selection is at random;
X and that an organism
can evolve over its lifetime. |