(January 23, 2015 at 8:48 pm)Heywood Wrote:(January 17, 2015 at 1:48 pm)Heywood Wrote: I would define evolution as follows:
Evolution is a process whereby changes in the heritable traits which reside in a given population accumulate through a selection mechanism over successive generations. The accumulation of these changes can result in an increase or decrease in one or more of the following: complexity, diversity, and knowledge.
Key attributes of evolution:
replication
heritable traits
change
selection
Hence why I am specifying "biological evolution," which is a specific study with its own field of scientific inquiry and research that goes by the same name.