"EVOLUTION CANNOT BE EQUATED WITH PROGRESS" JUSTIFY? SIR GIVE THE ANSWER ACCORDING TO BOARD MARKING SCHEME LIMITED WORD REQUIRED AND SOLID ANSWER

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(i)There is no real progress in the concept of evolution. Evolution is just the production of diversity of life forms and shaping of this diversity by the environmental selection. The only progress in evolution appears to be that more and more complex body designs of organisms have emerged over the ages. 

 (ii)It is not as if the newly formed species are in any way better than the older ones.It is simply that genetic drift and natural selection processes have combined to form a population having different body design which cannot interbreed with the older population. It is a common belief that chimpanzees are the ancestors of human beings. It is, however, not true that human beings have evolved from chimpanzees.Actually, both chimpanzees and human beings had a common ancestor long time ago. 

(iii)Again, it is not as if the body designs of older organisms were inefficient. This is because many of the older and simpler forms of organisms still survive on earth. For example, one of the simplest and primitive life forms called 'bacteria' still inhabit some of the most inhospitable (or unfavourable) habitats such as hot springs, deep-sea thermal vents and the ice in Antarctica. Most other organisms cannot survive in such harsh environments

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