Evolution by Mikayla

Evolution is change over time, it is also known survival of the fittest. The five fingers of evolution is something to help explain how it works. The pinky is small population, ring finger is selective mating, the middle finger is mutation, and the thumb is for adaptation. Small population is talking about how there is not many animals to mate with so they have to deal with what they have. Selective mating is when they only mate with the animals that survive the best, that way they start to have different outcomes of animals and they change to survive in the habitat that they live in. The middle finger is mutation and that stands for issue that happen when mating with the only people you can get. The last finger, the thumb, stands for adaptation. This shows how animals tend to change to survive with the habitat they have. How do you feel about evolution? Do you think that it should not be related to religion? I find this very interesting because many people think that it is insulting to religion or even to science. This year I learned that it really is not and that they are totally different things. Some things that I have found interesting about evolution is that years ago things could walk but now they have no legs and swim. I also find it very interesting that whales still have a pelvic bone floating around inside their body. That has not yet evolved to where they do not have it. The thing I find most interesting is how animals can use selective mating to change what they were to how they are now.

    

The evolution of a whale