Quote Originally Posted by Negrek View Post
No. Individuals cannot evolve.
Actually, I'd thank that to be false, simply because there had to be some point in time where one species became another.

For instance, say humans evolved from monkeys. Evolution is really slow, right? So gradually, the monkeys in question became more and more human, until eventually one of them 'crossed the threshhold' and became more human than chimpanzee. If individuals couldn't evolve, evolution would never happen - it's not like one day every monkey suddenly decided 'I'm gonna turn into a human today, but only if everyone else does, too.' It just seems like individual evolution must happen, at least sometime at some level, because the only other option available is group evolution, and that - that more than one of a certain species evolved into a certain other species at a certain time - seems impossible, or at the very least, infinitely less likely than the alternative.

And I base all of what I just said...

On absolutely nothing. Thank you,

P.S. Come back, Bri! This was just getting fun!