As a teacher, I have graded 1000's of essay answers. I got one today that beats every answer in the last 30 years. Enjoy!
The question: Describe four evidences of evolution and give examples of each. How did Darwin come up with the idea of natural selection and describe how we demonstrated that in our labs?
Answer:
One evidence of natural selection is birds. If you look outside and see a pigeon you'd think that bird looks small. But really its common ancestor is a terodactyl. Which is a pretty big sized bird. Another evolution thats really amazing are homosapiens. Its amazing to see what humans have evolved from like walking while bent over and now we can walk standing up straight. not to mention the technology the way its advanced since they had to use fire to light there caves we now have light bulbs. The third evolution change is lizards which evolved from T-rex's. An animal that was 61 feet tall evolved to something that's now, not even a whole foot tall. The last but most obvious change of evolution is earth. The earth's climate has changed sooooooooo much since 4 billion years ago. 4 billion years ago all the continents were together as one(pangea) now theyve all broken apart into 2 huge pieces of land and it use to be wayyyyy hotter 4 billion years ago but since the climate changed we experience times or periods of different weather. thats a huge change of evolution right there. Darwin came up with this idea of evolution of natural selection because of the massive change in environment and we demonstrated it in our lab because Just like cavemen did we changed over time.
I sat down and read this and wondered- did this student actually sit in the same class I was teaching in the last four weeks? That was hilarious and yet frightening all at the same time! Perhaps he will become our next senator. The scary thing is- he probably left class and thought- I nailed it! Momma T
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