No, I mean...you're stating that biological evolution and intellectual evolution are one and the same. But, they're not. However, if you want an example of evolution not requiring intellect, well, evolutionary changes happen in response to natural selection. That which lives...lives. That which dies...dies. The number of traits involved with that are a number I don't actually think has a name, to be honest. But as Darwin's expedition discovered, and as observation in nature have demonstrated, a species with a specialization that fits their environment thrives, and that which is improperly equipped does not. Evolution is all tied to the environment, and the environment is, more or less, itself. It's a tangled web in which everything affects everything, and anything can affect anything. The reason why species gradually change and adapt over time is because our overall environment is a chaotic mess that is ever-changing, as is the case with the entire universe, really. A volcano erupts, blankets a region with ash, the temperatures rise or drop, certain plants die out, others struggle to survive, and others are simply unaffected. With the death of certain species, so goes new problems for other lifeforms; the removal of a food source means new challenges, and some species either adapt or they die out. It's a ripple effect. It's why conservationists are in a panic over the human-instigated extinctions that happen due to things like deforestation and air pollution; it's affecting the web of life very negatively. For example, the recent crises regarding honeybees; changes to environments in multitudes of ways are causing changes that are too sudden and severe for bees to adapt to, which is resulting in them dying off, which means a population crisis for bees...which means that plant life itself, and a vast amount of it (which relies on those bees for pollination and, therefore, reproduction, which they have evolved to take advantage of in a symbiotic relationship between plant and flying insect) is in a great deal of trouble. Mass plant extinction because of the inability to reproduce; such a change would be so brutally sudden and abrupt, there's no way adaptation would be able to change over quickly enough. Some replacements may take advantage of it, other insect populations might thrive and take advantage of the new niches, but the changes wrought to the biological web...it's a scary reality that could very well come to pass, because that is how nature works.
It is not the result of any form of outside intelligence affecting it. It is simply the product of itself, the product of change without thought.
It is not the result of any form of outside intelligence affecting it. It is simply the product of itself, the product of change without thought.
