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GCSE English Literature · key term
Change in living organisms across generations. In The War of the Worlds, Wells imagines how different environments and dependence on technology might produce radically different forms of life.
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Revise: Science and evolutionHuxley, a prominent defender of Darwin’s theory. This helps explain the novel’s interest in anatomy, adaptation and the possibility that humans are only one temporary form of life, rather than evolution’s final achievement.
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Change in the inherited characteristics of a population over successive generations; it does not necessarily mean improvement or progress towards perfection.
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Evolution means changes in inherited characteristics over generations. Natural selection is one mechanism of evolution: individuals with characteristics better suited to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce. Fitness is therefore relative to an environment.
