Evolution is the processing in which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier life forms during the history of Earth.Evolution also means that a predator changes hunting methods or a certain species mutates to make a new species/mutation. The first animals (fish) crawled out of the sea and slowly changed and mutated over the ages and slowly changed from fish to reptiles, from reptiles to birds which finally evolved into mammals. The way we understand evolution is that an animal changes and spawns a new entire race of animals eg. Apes -) Humans. If humans hadn't evolved we would still be chucking stones at each other and climbing up trees! Yet evolution is a wonder that happens all the time! It has been believed that the first humans came from Egypt, Africa, and slowly expanded by exploring new continents and land bridges. The only way humans survived the ice age was by evolution. Did you know that the theory of evolution was came from an Ancient Greek philosopher, Aristotle. One prelate, James Ussher, calculated creation had taken place on October 26th 4004 B.C., at exactly 9 a.m. In 1785, James Hutton postulated that the Earth was formed by a series of natural events such as, erosion, disruption, and uplift and in the early 1800s, Georges Cuvier suggested that the earth was 6000 years old which we now all know that is wrong. In 1830 Charles Lyell published evidence pushing the earth back millions of years ago. Amid the controversy over geology and the age of the earth, French zoologist Jean Baptiste de Larmarck suggested a theory for evolution based on the development of traits in change to the natural environment. For example a giraffe's neck stretched as it reached for food high up in the trees. Charles Darwin was the son of an English physician. As a naturalist on the ship H.M.S Beagle, Darwin liked traveling to many parts of South Africa. His observation on the voyage started to stir his own theory of evolution. In 1858 another English naturalist, Alfred Russle Wallace, developed a concept of evolution quite similar to Darwin's theory. Alfred wrote his theory on a sheet of paper which corresponded to Darwin's. The 2 men decided in simultaneously present papers on evolution to London's scientific community in 1858. The next year Darwin published his famous book , On the origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or also known as the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle of Life. The book has simply been known as The Origin of Species.
This video explains a bit on the evolution of plants:
This video explains a bit on the evolution of plants: