The guest lecturer from NCSE - National Center for Science Education - talked about evolution and how it is related to natural selection.
Evolution is the continuous change in species.
The evidence for these particular changes are in the following:
- Biogeography
- Comparative Anatomy
- Molecular Biology
- Fossil Records
- Developmental Biology
Biogeography is the distribution of plants and animals(and their fossils) around the globe. This is possible because around 195 million years ago - Early Jurassic -, the whole world was all compacted. This means if we were alive at the time with all the technology we created, we would be able to travel around the world on land. All the world back then was connected by some patch of land. Africa was connected to Antarctica and Australia. This is why the continents are shaped in a sort of shape that seems like all the continents see to fit in like pieces in a puzzle.
The organization NCSE are devoted to defend the teachings of evolution in public schools and the guest lecturer told us about the evidence with a nice slideshow of fossil evidence, of natural selection, of the founder of natural selection, and much more. Thus showing us the essence of evolution itself.
