Misconceptions+about+Evolution

Finding the facts about evolution On this page you will find several articles that will help you understand the theory of evolution. No other scientific theory has been as misrepresented and misunderstood as the theory of biological evolution. To improve our understanding, Mr. Brewer's 2014 10th grade class has put together this page of information to combat the misinformation. Every one of the links below will help expose the most prevalent misconceptions that students have about evolution.



===#2 - When a change occurs in the environment, the individuals that have traits that are better suited for the changed environment would be more likely to survive and reproduce. ===

===#3 - When a new predator is introduced into a population of lizards, the individual lizards with the traits that best help them avoid the predator are more likely to survive and reproduce than the others. ===

===#4 - A population can differ from its ancestors because an environmental change can affect which inherited traits are most helpful and, therefore, which individuals are more likely to survive and reproduce. ===

===#5 - If only large seeds are available, only the birds with large enough beaks will get enough food to survive and reproduce, and they will pass the trait of large beaks to the next generation. ===

===#6 - In a population of light and dark moths, if the number of dark trees for the moths to hide in suddenly increases, the number of dark moths will increase in each generation because more dark moths will survive and reproduce than light moths. ===

===#7 - Bacteria become resistant to antibiotics when a few individual resistant bacteria survive and reproduce, passing their resistance on to the next generation. ===

===#8 - Species can change over generations because individuals with traits that are helpful in the current environment are more likely to survive and pass those traits on to their offspring. ===

===#9 - Some organisms survive and others die as the environment changes; this changes the proportion of organisms with certain traits in that population. ===