/lit/ - Literature

>>16493692
>It's a scientific theory, so it must be able to generate falsifiable predictions, yes?
You seem like a cute girl so I will answer your question.
The only place the THEORY OF EVOLUTION figures as such is in Darwin's "On the Origin of Species." Otherwise it's not a scientific theory but a phenomenon.
As for the theory itself, it states that characteristics are inherited from the parents, and fitter parents (meaning those which can handle their environment better) can produce more offspring that get to grow up and reproduce themselves. There is also a set quantity of default mutation and different manners in which it's determined what you inherit from which parent... in fact if you get down to the brass tacks, it's kind of a shitshow of a leaking ship... but the phenomenon itself is real and exists. It's the very lax rule that affords for very many exceptions, hence you cannot really falsify it using an exception. That's why the THEORY OF EVOLUTION is in that book and what "evolved" since then is the PHENOMENON OF EVOLUTION.