Maddy's Evolution Blog

         Evolution can be explained in many ways. I remember my 8th-grade science teacher telling us to think of evolution as starting with a single microscopic organism that was the first living thing on earth and that over time it changed and evolved to become more complex and branched out into several different species and this continued giving us the greatly diverse life forms that we have today. A couple years ago I took a Vertebrate Zoology course and my professor had a different way of explaining what evolution was. He explained evolution as how animals adapt to their changing environment. So for me, evolution is a combination of those two ideas. I explain evolution as how living organisms adapt to a changing environment over generations and how these adaptations can lead to the formation of new subspecies.      I think that evolution can be both a fact and a theory depending on the context. In terms of bacteria becoming resistant to a...

      My name is Maddy and I am from Arlington, KS. I am a wildlife conservation and ecology major. I love spending time with my dogs as well as boxing. I'm fascinated with how animals have evolved to live in conditions and areas that seem uninhabitable at first glance. When I think of evolution in daily life, I think of bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics. I am excited to learn how to code.