It's a common misunderstanding that evolution has a \"goal\". You see this most often when evolution is presented as a progression with human-kind as the end result. Evolution simply selects for organisms that are more well adapted to the current local environment; it does not select organisms that are further along the path to some \"goal\". Mario Ageno, a professor of biophysics put it like this:<\/p>\n
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