The theory of evolution, as set forth by Charles Darwin in 1859, stated that all plant and animal life evolved
over long periods of time from simple to more complicated forms through mutation and adaptation. He
also taught that only the fittest of each species would survive. He further postulated that the first living cell
evolved in a "warm warm little pond" and that it took billions of years for the present diversity of living
things to evolve. At the time, it was thought that the few "missing links" in the fossil record would be soon
filled.(Darwin, 1927 ). …
