People of all walks, ages and experience notice similarities
in organisms. When looking at zebras in
a zoo a little kid might ask, “Why do the horsies have stripes?” and who hasn’t
called an orangutan or gorilla a monkey.
My favorite is when someone calls any old insect a bug. Sure a bug is an
insect and they are related but that doesn’t mean all insects are bugs (to dig
deeper into this entomological nerdery Google Hemiptera). The point here
is that we naturally see connections between different organisms. Evolution is a theory that says –“Yes
organisms are definitely connected - here are some nice examples to illustrate
the point…” then goes on to show in great and diverse detail that organisms are
connected in lineage to each other and to all other organisms from the deep
past.
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