Quiz: Test your knowledge of evolution

[hunter]

Even spelling the word, evolution, can be tricky when you're seven, but Sophia tells me confidently that evolution "basically means engineering".

And Jack says that sharks are lighter underneath so that "when the sun is on the sea, you can't really see the sharks".

He's talking about the fact that sharks have evolved a form of camouflage that helps them sneak up on their prey.

At the opening of the new Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath, school children are learning about evolution through the help of cuddly sharks of all shapes and sizes, fruit flies and even a tame owl.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-45564594

Seven questions.

You may begin...

[shanny]

1. 7/7

[Wounded Bear]

2. 6/7...

I bit on the last one.

Guess I'm more of an atheist than I thought.

[Nitram]

5. It is a trick question because it depends on the religion. Young Earth Creationists believe the

earth is only 6,000 or 7,000 years old. That directly contradicts the amount of time needed for complex new species to arise.

[COLGATE4]

3. 7/7

[Nitram]

4. Awfully short quiz. 7/7

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Lot of controversy over the "descended from monkeys" question

There's even a quote:

"The classic one is people don't want to say we're descended from apes - but actually we're not, we're descended from a common ancestor," says Dr Kay Fountain, a veterinary scientist studying the evolution of bacteria in bats.

Yeah, but, we are apes. So of course we're descended from apes.

And as far as monkeys go, we are closer relatives for old world monkeys than new world monkeys are; so we too are descended from the common ancestor of old world and new world monkeys. And if the common ancestor of old world and new world monkeys was not a monkey, then what was it?