*_💠🔹Evolution is one of the greatest theories in all of science. It sets out to explain life: specifically, how the first simple life gave rise to all the huge diversity we see today, from bacteria to oak trees to blue whales._*
*_🔹💠For scientists, evolution is a fact. We know that life evolved with the same certainty that we know the Earth is roughly spherical, that gravity keeps us on it, and that wasps at a picnic are annoying._*
*_🔹💠Not that you would know that from the media in some countries, where evolution is ferociously argued about – put down as “just a theory” or dismissed as a flat-out lie._*
*_🔹💠Why are biologists so certain about this? What is the evidence? The short answer is that there is so much it’s hard to know where to start. But here is a very cursory summary of the evidence that life has, indeed, evolved._*
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