There are a lot of gaps in the evidence for the Theory of Evolution, and some things don’t quite add up yet. There are enough of these shortcomings that many argue it should probably be downgraded to a hypothesis, if not discounted altogether. However, one of those problems has just been solved. For decades, evolutionary biologists have observed what appeared to be an acceleration of evolutionary processes over shorter time frames, leading to the belief that younger species groups evolve faster than older ones. This long-standing notion has sparked numerous hypotheses aimed at explaining why speciation, extinction, and other evolutionary rates seem to speed up over brief periods, such as five million years, when compared to much longer intervals like
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